One female professor and three male professors were recognized at the 2024 National Teachers’ Meeting.
Tec de Monterrey has recognized the efforts of teachers with the 2024 Inspirational Teacher Award, considered the highest award given by the institution to its faculty.
This event took place during the National Teachers’ Meeting (RNP), in which four undergraduate and graduate professors from across the country were recognized.
“We’ve been at different graduations in the past few days, and we constantly see a sense of pride and gratitude in the faces of our students and their parents. In reality, it’s you, the teachers, that they’re thankful for.
“A university is only as good as its professors. We recognize everyone today, but in particular those with outstanding performance this year,” said David Garza, Rector and Executive President of the Tec.
2024 Inspirational Teachers
The 2024 Inspirational Teachers are:
- Juan Gabino Díaz, from the Tampico campus.
- Paloma Barajas, from the Guadalajara campus.
- Eduardo Aguiñaga, from EGADE Business School.
- Emilio Clarke, from the Querétaro campus.
“There are colleagues who’ve been working at the Tec for decades, others who arrived more recently, some department chairs, others full-time professors, some researchers, and others who focus on innovation, but all of them have a passion and commitment to their students,” said Juan Pablo Murra, the Tec’s Rector for Higher Education.
The 24 professors nominated are:
- Eduardo Enrique Aguiñaga – EGADE
- Alejandro Juan Álvarez – Monterrey campus
- Julio César Ávila – Sonora Norte campus
- Paloma Barajas – Guadalajara campus
- Adriana Burgos – Cuernavaca campus
- Horacio Carreón – Santa Fe campus
- Jesús Enrique Chong – State of Mexico campus
- Emilio Clarke – Querétaro campus
- Lilia Artemisa Cortez – Sinaloa campus
- Juan Gabino Díaz – Tampico campus
- Emmanuel García – Santa Fe campus
- Roberto García – Monterrey campus
- Vianney González – State of Mexico campus
- Alejandro Guajardo – Guadalajara campus
- Pablo Hernández – Chihuahua campus
- Jorge Alberto López – Puebla campus
- Juan Carlos Márquez – Monterrey campus
- Abraham Rafael Mora – Puebla campus
- Miguel Ángel Ontiveros – Toluca campus
- Eliud Quintero – Monterrey campus
- Ján Rehák – Querétaro campus
- Angélica Lizeth Sánchez – Guadalajara campus
- Luis Ángel Trejo – State of Mexico campus
- Antonio Vallejo, Jr. – Laguna campus
“We’re very happy to have them all here, celebrating their day-to-day work to inspire, train, and leave a positive impact on society. We’re celebrating nine years of this great award,” said Grisel Ayllón, Vice Rector of Faculty.
“A university is only as good as its professors.” – David Garza, Rector and Executive President of the Tec
Winners of the 2024 awards
- Juan Gabino Díaz
A professor in the School of Engineering and Sciences at the Tampico campus, Juan Gabino Díaz stands out for his leadership of the ULEAD project to develop nanosatellites in international collaboration with the Pontifical Xavierian University in Colombia.
In addition, he advises three Tec teams participating in the Ibero-American can-sized satellite competition and organized the regional nanosatellite competition, CanSat Competition 2023, for middle and high school students.
He was a speaker at the Japan-Latin American Workshop on Small Satellite Development and presenter of A Drone Grand Prix: Educational Robotics Competition Using Drones with First-Person View at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Engineering Veracruz.
“It’s only fair to recognize the people who have supported me, starting with my leaders, my students for all their efforts, and my family, my daughters and my wife who give me a little bit of their time to let me dedicate myself to this, which is my great passion,” said the award winner.
- Paloma Barajas
Guadalajara campus School of Engineering and Science professor Paloma Barajas was recognized for designing a survey and an article on the perspective of biotechnology students regarding plastic pollution.
These publications were presented at the IEEE Global Education Engineering Conference.
She participated in the project Mapping Organic Waste Streams for Developing Sustainable Food and Waste Management Systems on Campus: Living Lab Perspective in the call for the 2023 Ruta Azul Challenge.
Professor Barajas has published research articles in Q1 and Q2 journals and is a member of the review committee of the 44th National Meeting of the Mexican Academy of Chemical Engineering Research and Teaching.
“This is all thanks to my parents, who have been my inspiration. It’s also thanks to my students and to the Tec for giving us the tools to develop and train students to be good citizens of the country,” said the professor.
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- Eduardo Enrique Aguiñaga
Professor Eduardo Aguiñaga was recognized with the Teaching Excellence Award for EGADE professors in the 2022-2023 cycle. He was leader of the redesign of the full-time MBA and the Master’s in Business Management as well as gamification of the student experience in this program.
He is the author of the first e-Learning course on the Circular Economy made available to the community through the Conscious Enterprise Center, where he impacted more than 300 people.
Professor Aguiñaga has developed two book chapters on circular economy topics, has given talks and spoken on business and government panels, and has been director and advisor of doctoral theses at EGADE and UNAM.
“I didn’t expect this. I’m extremely grateful. I never thought I’d be a teacher, but life takes us on the path that’s necessary, and being a teacher has been transformative,” the professor said.
- Emilio Clarke
Among professor Emilio Clarke’s most outstanding achievements in the School of Engineering and Science is the design of gamification strategies in a virtual escape room where he impacted more than 275 students.
He designed the sustainable bioconstruction competition and participated in the academic publication entitledDesigning Learning Experiences on Climate Change for Undergraduate Students of Different Majors.
Professor Clarke also participated in the Carbon Markets and Youth, Climate Change, and Worldviews for a Sustainable World discussion forums
This was part of the BBVA national sustainability challenge, where his students were among the ten finalists.
“Thanks so much to the institution for allowing us to do the crazy things we do and for having such an amazing impact on our students. And thanks to my family,” said the winner.
2024 National Teachers’ Meeting
The National Teachers’ Meeting is the annual meeting of Tec de Monterrey’s Higher Education academic community with spaces for learning and institutional alignment, roundtable discussions, and moments of celebration.
This year, there were virtual talks held with the central theme of artificial intelligence for promoting human flourishing.
From July 2 to 4, teachers were encouraged to explore and learn how artificial intelligence is shaping a cultural change in which human flourishing must play a leading role.
Inspirational Teacher award for PrepaTec teachers
Two male teachers and one female teacher received the Inspirational Teacher award during PrepaTec’s 2024 National Meeting.
Ada Cecilia Berzosa from PrepaTec Santa Catarina was recognized for being project presenter at the International Conference on Educational Innovation.
She also designed high impact activities and projects in multicultural and international academic programs and was a speaker at the Annual STEM Education Conference, among other achievements.
David Alejandro Duarte from PrepaTec Sonora Norte, who received the award for being international runner-up in the National Geographic Slingshot challenge, published the scientific article The Race to Nuclear Supremacy: Classroom Games as Motivation.
He was an instructor of a basic programming workshop to more than 70 children and adolescents in a project called Labyrinths of Education.
Monica Maluy, from PrepaTec Saltillo, received the award for writing the first chapter of the edubook “How to Gamify Your Class,” an implementation of artificial intelligence tools to generate enriched visual presentations.
She participated in MUN as a faculty advisor and as part of the leadership team of the event and was also part of the Monterrey faculty committee that designed the academic experience Lekilaltik, Chiapas, in conjunction with the CIS in Chiapas.
The 12 nominees for PrepaTec’s 2024 Inspirational Teacher are:
- Silvia Andena Castañeda – PrepaTec Puebla
- Adaa Cecilia Bersoza Hernández – PrepaTec Santa Catarina
- Aída Borja Pacheco – PrepaTec Morelia
- David Alejandro Duarte Moroyoqui – PrepaTec Sonora Norte
- Lidia Fabián Acevedo – PrepaTec Mexico City
- Mónica Guadalupe Maluy Fernández – PrepaTec Saltillo
- Jenny Salomón Orea – PrepaTec Hidalgo
- María Elena Tirado Enríquez – PrepaTec Tampico
- Claudia Valencia Martínez – PrepaTec State of Mexico
- Humerto Aispuro Sánchez – PrepaTec Ciudad Obregón
- Katia Mayela Cantú Huerta – PrepaTec Garza Lagüera
- Nestor Alejandro Narcizo Nuci – PrepaTec Morelia
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