Carlos Carbonell Carrera PhD. is an Associate Professor of the Department of Technical and Project Engineering and Architecture at the University of La Laguna since 2002. He is a Surveying Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Bachelor of Documentation from the University Oberta of Cataluña, He earned an International Master in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Girona and PhD. in Engineering from University of La Laguna. He worked for private companies from 1991 as a project civil engineer. His research focuses on the study of methodologies innovative teaching with new media and 3D technologies for geospatial thinking and spatial orientation skill development. Carbonell has held short research stays within the Erasmus + program of the European Commission in Italy, Romania, Poland, Belgium, and Finland. He has also performed two international research stays at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA, 2018), in the Research In Spatial Cognition Lab and at University of California Santa Barbara (California, USA, 2019), in the Center for Spatial Studies.
Research Keywords & Expertise
Spatial Cognition
Sustainability
3D mapping
Geospatial thinking
Spatial orientation
Map-reading skills
STEM domain
Fingerprints
27%
Spatial orientation
8%
Sustainability
8%
3D mapping
8%
Geospatial thinking
5%
Map-reading skills
Short Biography
Carlos Carbonell Carrera PhD. is an Associate Professor of the Department of Technical and Project Engineering and Architecture at the University of La Laguna since 2002. He is a Surveying Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Bachelor of Documentation from the University Oberta of Cataluña, He earned an International Master in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Girona and PhD. in Engineering from University of La Laguna. He worked for private companies from 1991 as a project civil engineer. His research focuses on the study of methodologies innovative teaching with new media and 3D technologies for geospatial thinking and spatial orientation skill development. Carbonell has held short research stays within the Erasmus + program of the European Commission in Italy, Romania, Poland, Belgium, and Finland. He has also performed two international research stays at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA, 2018), in the Research In Spatial Cognition Lab and at University of California Santa Barbara (California, USA, 2019), in the Center for Spatial Studies.