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International Summer Course 2019. Smart Mobility

Status: Completed

General Objective: Contribute to the training of researchers and human capital, providing concepts (basic and applied), and developing skills, related to smart mobility, necessary for participants to contribute effectively to solving the challenges involved in making cities and human settlements are inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (goal 11 of the 2030 sustainable development agenda)

Participants:

José Ignacio Huertas Cardozo
Doctor of Science (DSc.) 1997 Washington University USA
Master of Science (MSc.) 1994 Washington University USA
Mechanical Engineer 1990 Universidad de los Andes Colombia
Mechanical Engineer from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes and the University of Washington, St. Louis, USA. Doctor of Science from the University of Washington. Currently a tenured professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He belongs to the National System of CONACYT researchers, level 1, in Mexico and a senior researcher in Colombia at COLCIENCIAS. Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He led the Energy Research Group (GICOM) of the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia from 1998 to 2002. In 2004 he founded the Center for Research in Automotive Mechatronics (CIMA) of the Tecnológico de Monterrey and led it until 2015. He is currently researcher in the energy and climate change research group at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He has published 3 books, 6 book chapters and more than 50 articles in indexed journals related to energy and air pollution. He owns a patent and a granted copyright. He has completed more than 90 technological research and development projects financed by companies and government entities in Colombia, Mexico, Spain, France, and the USA. He has graduated 89 masters and 8 doctors

 John Ramiro Agudelo Santamaría
Doctor of Industrial Engineering 1998 Polytechnic University of Madrid Spain
Mechanical Engineer 1995 University of Antioquia Colombia
Mechanical Engineer from the University of Antioquia, Colombia. PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Currently professor at the University of Antioquia (Medellín-Colombia) and senior researcher in Colombia at COLCIENCIAS. He leads the research group on Efficient Energy Management (GIMEL) at the University of Antioquia in Colombia from 2006 to the present. This group has been classified in the highest category of excellence (A1) by COLCIENCIAS. He has published 4 books, 4 book chapters and more than 40 articles in indexed journals (ISI-SCOPUS) related to energy and air pollution. He has completed more than 30 technological research and development projects financed by companies and government entities in Colombia, Spain and the USA. He has graduated 16 masters and 5 doctors

María Elena Huertas Bolaños
PhD in Engineering Sciences 2013 Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Mexico
Environmental Engineering 2009 Universidad de los Andes Colombia
Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Climate Change and Energy Research Group of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. She belongs to the National System of CONACYT researchers, candidate level, in Mexico. She was a research professor of the Environmental Engineering program at the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Colombia, from 2014 to 2017. She has more than 10 publications in indexed journals and advised 8 theses at the undergraduate level on the topics of air quality and emissions. . She currently coordinates the RELIEVE network – Latin American Network for Research in Energy and Vehicles.

Jenny Ramírez Díaz
Doctor of Industrial Engineering 2007 Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Mexico
Master of Operations Research (MSc.) 2005 Georgia Institute of Technology USA
Master of Industrial Engineering 1999 Universidad de los Andes Colombia
Industrial Engineer 1994 Universidad del Valle Colombia
Es Colombian and Mexican, industrial engineer, graduated from the Universidad del Valle, in Cali, Colombia. She studied a master's degree in industrial engineering at the Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, and a master's degree in operations research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, United States. In 2007 she obtained her doctorate in industrial engineering from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca. She was a professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey until 2015, first at the Toluca Campus and then at the Santa Fe Campus. Later she was an associate professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali. She has taught courses in industrial engineering at the professional, master's, continuing education, and doctoral levels. She has participated in research stays at the Instituto Superior del Automóvil y Transporte, ISAT in Nevers, France (2011), at Logyca / Investigación in Bogotá (2014) and at the EAFIT University, Medellín, (2018). She has worked in Colombian public and private institutions (1997-2003) and has participated in research and consulting projects with some companies in the region. She is currently a professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Monterrey. She is the author and co-author of scientific articles on optimization and applied statistics in airline operations, fuel consumption reduction strategies, logistics and air quality. She is a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico-SNI, level 1 since 2015.

Roberto Ponce López
Doctorate in Urban Information Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Master's in Administration and Public Policy, Camegie Mellon University, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Public Policy, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico He
currently teaches classes on Scenario Modeling at the Master's degree at Tecnológico Monterrey, is a class on econometrics, forecasting techniques and demand modeling. He teaches the Research Methods Seminar class at the doctoral level.

Organizers:

  • UAZUAY
  • POCH
  • UPS

Research areas:

  • Vehicles
  • mobility
  • Sustainable development
  • Information technology