Morales-Menéndez, Rubén

Full Professor (Consultant and Extensionist) Research areas: ----- Automatic systems ----- Computer learning ----- Diagnosis and estimation in dynamic systems ----- Engineering education (complex learning) Dr. Morales has a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical and Systems Engineering (1984), a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering (1986), and a Master's Degree in Control Engineering (1992) from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. He also has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (2003). Dr. Morales has taught over 5,000 students through more than 30 courses at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he has co-founded the Industrial Automation Center since 1987. He developed educational technology based on industrial automation systems and was recognized with the Teaching and Research Award (1993 and 2005). He has developed several automation projects with more than 20 national and international companies as a consultant specializing in the analysis and design of automatic control systems and extension services, for which he was recognized as a tenured consulting professor, consultant, and extensionist since 1998. During his doctoral research stay at the Computational Intelligence Laboratory at UBC Vancouver, Canada, he participated with the NASA Ames Research Center, developing an online fault diagnosis algorithm. He has worked at the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), organizing the IFAC-CEA 2007 congress and the IFAC-SAFEPROCESS 2012 symposium. Co-editor of the annual Workshop on Educational Innovation in Engineering and Sciences of the Int Magazine of Interactive Design and Manufacturing 2016-21. He has co-advised doctoral theses at the Institute of Industrial Automation (Spain) and the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble. (Gipsa-Lab, France) through various international projects. I worked for CONACyT as an Administration Council of Sector Research Funds member from 2010-2020. It has over 250 research products (indexed journals, international conferences, patent applications, and books). It has graduated six doctoral students and 32 master's students. His scientific production was recognized by the National System of Researchers as Level 2 in 2014. He has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2015 and the Mexican Academy of Engineering since 2016, consolidating his impact on research. In addition to his development as a teacher, consultant, and researcher, in the last 20 years, he has held strategic administrative positions; he has been Director of the Industrial Automation Center (2003), Associate Director of Research (2007), Academic Vice-provost (2009) supporting institutional accreditations via the Office of Regulations and Academic Improvement. He is currently the National Director of Postgraduate Studies at the School of Engineering and Sciences since 2014, consolidating the growth of the student body (international - Asia + Africa-), establishing policies to increase scientific production in postgraduate programs and their industrial links, and developing the faculty of the graduate.