Alonso Quintana Kawage
Description Sergio Manuel Alcocer Martinez de Castro has been an independent director since 2007. Mr. Alcocer is currently Secretary General of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Formerly he was the director of the Engineering Institute of the UNAM and currently teaches various courses at the Graduate School of Engineering of the same institution. He has a bachelors degree in civil engineering from the Engineering School of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Alcocer has been research director of the Centro Nacional de Prevencion de Desastres and is president of the Reviewing Committee of the Complementary Technical Norms Applicable to the Design and Construction of Masonry Structures belonging to the construction code in Mexico City and is member of the Reviewing Committee of Complementary Technical Norms for the Design and Construction of Concrete structures of the same code. In 2001, Mr. Alcocer received a Mention of Distinction from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico for young members of academia in the area of Technological Innovation and Industrial Design. Also in this year, he received the 2001 Research Award from the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias in the area of Technological Research. He is also member of various technical committees of the Instituto Americano del Concreto. Mr. Alcocer is currently president of the Mexican Society of Structural Engineering and vice president of the Technical Committee of the National Office of Normalization and Certification of Construction and building. Mr. Alcocer is the first foreign member of the board of directors of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute of the United States. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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