National University of Engineering
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National University of Engineering (Spanish:Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería) (UNI) is a prestigious engineering and science university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1876 by the Polish engineer Edward Jan Habich. It was first known as the Escuela Especial de Ingenieros de Construcciones Civiles y de Minas del Perú, but has traditionally been known as "Escuela de Ingenieros" ("School of Engineers").
The University was founded during a time in which the country was becoming industrialized and lacked Peruvian-educated engineers to achieve major works such as a mining exploitation, development and construction of railroads, new roads, etc.
Current admission to the University is highly competitive, with 39 applicants per vacancy in the most demanding fields such as mechatronic engineering, architecture, systems engineers, etc.
Outstanding former alumni
Among former renowned professors and students are:- Fernando Belaúnde Terry, former President of Peru (1963-8,1980-5).
- Francisco Sagasti, former planning manager at the World Bank.
- Ronald Woodman Pollit, physicist, executive president of Instituto Geofísico del Perú. Woodman is a winner of the [Appleton prize] for "major contributions and leadership in the radar studies of the ionospheric and neutral atmosphere". Besides his many contributions to equatorial incoherent scatter science, he created the entire field of mesosphere, stratosphere and troposphere wind profile measurements with VHF radars. His distinguished career has spanned leadership assignments in a number of universities and scientific institutions around the world. He has been a mentor to a number of distinguished Peruvian scientists and a leader in promoting investment in science and technology in Peru. [link]
- Jorge Heraud Pérez, inventor of Peru's first automated robot.
- Barton Zwiebach Cantor, string theorist, author of "A First Course in String Theory" and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [link]
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- Mario R. Barbacci is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), he was the founding chairman of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 10.2 (Computer Descriptions and Tools) and has served as Vice-President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Computer Society, founding chairman of the Joint IEEE Computer Society/ACM Steering Committee for the Establishment of Software Engineering as a Profession. He was 1996 President of the IEEE Computer Society, 1998-1999 IEEE Division V Director, and IEEE Technical Activities Board Strategic Planning and Research Committee 2000-2002. Barbacci is the recipient of several IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Certificates, the ACM Recognition of Service Award, and the IFIP Silver Core Award. Barbacci received bachelor's and engineer's degrees in electrical engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, and a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University. [link]
- Pedro Medelius Olcese, an electrical engineer at Kennedy Space Center and a graduate of the University of Florida, recently was presented with NASA's Silver Snoopy Award for service to the Space Shuttle astronauts. [link]
- César Gonzales, an IBM Fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is an expert in digital image and video technologies having contributed to the development of the widely used MPEG-2 video compression standard. He also led the development of advanced semiconductor chips based on this standard which IBM sold in the digital TV broadcast and consumer electronics markets. [link]
- César Camacho Manco, mathematician, Director of Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics), the most important mathematical institution in Brazil. He solved the "separatrix theorem" a complex dynamical problem with 150 years without solution. [link]
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