  Theories with extra-dimensional coordinates provide interesting mechanisms to
achieve the rupture of symmetries. Here we present a novel alternative to the
usual geometric considerations to achieve supersymmetric breaking for an
extra-dimensional Wess-Zumino model. A supersymmetric model is constructed
where the superpotential contains an effective supersymmetric non
renormalizable operator, which generates, after compactification, the
explicitly rupture of supersymmetry for the excited Kaluza-Klein excitations.
The supersymmetry breaking is, in turn, communicated, by the radiatives
corrections, to the zero mode.
