The Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI) of the University of Seville and president of INERCO, Vicente Cortés Galeano, has received the National Award for Industrial Engineering in the category of Professional Career that was awarded in the gala that was held in the ETSi assembly hall.

important contributions to Andalusian and Spanish engineering are recognized , both with the creation and development of a reference engineering company like Inerco , as well as its work in bringing field work to new engineering professionals throughout the world." throughout his extensive career as a teacher and researcher at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of Seville.”

More than half a thousand guests were present at the gala, in which the president of the General Council of Industrial Engineers , César Franco, stated that “Spain, Europe and our planet face challenges for which industrial engineering hides a large part.” of the answers . Today we have seen excellent examples of the contribution of industrial engineering to the transformation of energy, digitalization, passenger mobility and also freight mobility. Universities must continue to be a hotbed of talent to face the challenges of today and the future. The university has to be linked to the business world. We need lighthouses that demonstrate that industrial engineering helps improve our daily lives,” Franco concluded.

This year's awards are marked in the speeches by the recent study by the Engineering Observatory in Spain which, among its conclusions this year, highlighted the need to incorporate 200,000 new engineers in the next 10 years .

Others awards

In addition to the award to Vicente Cortés, the Industrial Engineer of the Year award has been awarded to Elena Moral Grande , COO (director of operations) at Talgo , in recognition of both her “participation in key projects in the leadership of our country in the sector railway, as well as their selfless work in giving visibility to the profession and, especially, to female talent.”

The Solidarity Project award recognizes the work of the Rodolfo Benito Samaniego Foundation , for its selfless work “in projects that seek solutions to improve the world in which we all live,” stressed Ana Isabel Hidalgo Serna, president of the Foundation.

The Engineering Work award , to the Digital Twin of the Navantia Ría de Ferrol plant , in recognition of its “impact on the optimization of industrial management, advanced security and use of 4.0 technology in the integration of real-time systems in the Ría de Ferrol factory. The award was collected by Rafael Morgade, director of industrial digital transformation at the Ferrol shipyard and David Roca, project coordinator and maintenance manager of the Ferrol estuary. The award for Innovative Company has been received by Rafael Mateo, CEO of Acciona Energía , both for being the largest “100% renewable energy company in the world, and for the global development of leading projects in clean energy generation with results as transformative as Power to Green Hydrogen Mallorca".