Manuel Castro

IGIP Nikola Tesla Chain Award, IEEE HKN (Eta Kappa Nu) Professional member and Honor Ambassador of Madrid Convention Bureau Professor UNED

Manuel Castro received the Industrial Engineering degree and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from ETSII/Madrid Polytechnic University, Spain. He was the National University of Distance Education’s (UNED’s) New Technologies Vice-Rector, the UNED’s Information Services Center Director, the Research and Doctorate Vice-Director, the Vice-Director of Academic Affairs with the School of Engineering, UNED, and the Director of the Department. He worked for five years in Digital Equipment Corporation, as a Senior System Engineer. He is currently a Professor of Electronics Technology being expert and focused in Technology Enhanced Learning and Simulations/Digital Twins inside the Connected Industry. He belongs to the organizing committee of the IEEE EDUCON (past Chair), the IEEE EDUNINE, the IEEE LWMOOCs (past Chair), ISES, TAEE, and SAAEI conferences. He was member of the Board of Directors (BoD) of the IEEE, as former Division VI Director, a member of the Administration Committee and Board of Governors (AdCOM/BoG) of the IEEE Education Society. He was a recipient of the Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the UPM and the 1988 Viesgo Doctoral Thesis Award for improving Scientific Research on Industrial Process Electricity Application. He has been world-renowned with several awards, being the most recent 2019 IEEE William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education of the IEEE Education Society and the IEEE LWMOOCS 2023 Meritorious Service Award.