Pan-American Academy of Engineering honors its founding president

The Pan American Academy of Engineering (API) begins this Thursday, November 21, the celebration of its 2024 Biennial with a tribute to the outstanding engineer Miguel Ángel Yadarola, academic emeritus and founding president (2000-2012) of the prestigious entity.

The event will take place at the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina, in the city of Córdoba, where the event takes place.

This was reported by engineer José Domingo Pérez Muñiz, current president of the API, who specified that the award to Yadarola is part of the events of the Inaugural Session of the Biennial, which this time will revolve around the discussion of “Artificial Intelligence and Federated Learning in the Development of Engineering, Green Energy and Works Resilient to Climate Change”.

Pérez Muñiz indicated that the tribute to the renowned Argentine engineer will begin at 9:00 in the morning, Argentine time, and will be broadcast live on the Zoom platform, whose link is available below:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86022979081?pwd=67oClZaw8PQjVd3k5xwkbXb3UDledu.1

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For the occasion, the first secretary of the API, engineer Vladimir Mendizábal, will be in charge of reading the portrait of Yadarola, in which he will review, as a biographical portrait, the contributions that the plenary professor at the University of Belgrano, in Buenos Aires, has made to the engineering profession.

A graduate of the National University of Córdoba in 1955, where he graduated as a Civil Engineer, Yadarola has been widely decorated for his achievements in the service of engineering, as well as for his contributions to teaching and educational research.

With more than six decades of professional career, the outstanding engineer has served as a professor in the disciplines of physics, architecture and engineering at different Argentine universities.

In addition, in 1997, the Ministry of Education of Argentina appointed the Ministerial Advisory Committee to develop the Standards of Engineering Accreditation and Basic Curricular Content for all engineering careers in public and private universities in his country.

In turn, he has been a member of the most prestigious organizations in the engineering sciences, including the National Academy of Education of Argentina; the New York Academy of Sciences; the Pan-American Union of Engineering Associations (UPADI); the World Federation of Engineering Organizations; and the API, the institution that he contributed to gestar and of which he was its first president.

He has also been active in the Buenos Aires Academy of Engineering; the Coordinating Board of Professional Councils for Engineering, Architecture and Surveying of Argentina; and the Argentine Union of Engineering Associations.

In the professional field, Yadarola has created an extensive sheet of work on civil, electrical and industrial projects, the vast majority carried out together with the Argentinian firm Inconas Consulting Engineers, of which he has been a founding member since 1960.