- 20 de mayo de 2021
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REGIONAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION COMMITTEE SWORN IN
José Antonio Tovar Lara, Rector of UTM, presides over it.
The Regional Committee for Science, Technology and Innovation is sworn in.
In order to promote a culture of appreciation, interest and appropriation of science, technology and innovation practices, the Regional Committee for the Promotion of Science, Technology and Innovation was formed with the participation of educational institutions, private sector organizations, researchers and public institutions.
José Antonio Tovar Lara, president of the Technological University of Matamoros, was sworn in as president of the Council during an event presided over by Francisco Hernández Montemayor, general director of the Tamaulipas Council of Science and Technology.
The Regional Committee for the Promotion of Science, Technology and Innovation is also composed of: Ana Isabel Lerma González, as vice president; while Alejandro Fernández Sandoval, Guillermo Lash de la Fuente, Mario Ramírez Andrade, francisco Sánchez Salazar, and at a distance, MC. María Anel Olvera Montiel, deputy director of Technological Development CONACYT, and Astrophysicist Dr. Alfredo Santillán González, head researcher of the General Directorate of Computing and Information and Communication Technologies of the UNAM occupy important commissions within the Committee.
Among the objectives of this committee is the strengthening of the link between the productive, educational and research sectors to promote scientific research projects and technological development with the social and economic needs in each of the regions of the state.
José Antonio Tovar Lara explained that the Technological University of Matamoros is already working on the development of nanotubes for the generation and development of new metal-ceramic composites, nano-structured polymeric with mechanical and electrical properties of high performance in the automotive area.
He announced that as part of the work of this Committee, the First Congress of Applied Science and Technology will be held, a proposal that has already been accepted by the FOMIX-Tamaulipas fund, focused on the areas of metal-mechanics, as well as energy and advanced manufacturing, with the participation of internationally renowned researchers, among them, Dr. Rafael Colas, Dr. Mark W. Spong and Dr. Nestor Perea.
The Committee’s other actions also include promoting programs for the social appropriation of science, technology and innovation throughout the school system, consolidating annual creativity and innovation competitions, and campaigns in rural and urban basic education schools to encourage the appreciation of STI.
