The La Piedad Institute of Technology is a public university located in
La Piedad
La Piedad is a municipality located at in the north-west of the Mexican state of Michoacán, bordering Jalisco and Guanajuato. The municipal seat is the town of La Piedad de Cabadas. The original colonial name was San Sebastián. It is bordered ...
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Michoacán
Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...
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Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. It was founded in 1990. It is part of the Mexican public education system (SEP) and offers training for several careers. English is taught as a second language at the school.
History
In 1990 the institute started operations in the buildings of another college, Centro de Bachillerato Tecnológico Industrial y de servicios No. 84, with programmes in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Computer Systems Engineering and Informatics.
Several years later it added a course of study for Electronics Engineering. Throughout its 17-year history, students at ''Tec La Piedad'' have several times won firsts, seconds and third place prizes at creativity contests, amongst institutes of technology from around the country.
The university has been the venue of regional sports tournaments, where the students took part in basketball, tennis, and soccer.
Academics
The institute offers a variety of degree programs:
* Electronic Engineering
* Industrial Engineering
* Business Administration
* Computer Systems Engineering
* Informatics
Featured Engineers
Ing. Miguel Angel Vázquez JiménezIng. Ociel García Padilla
Research publications
Below is a list of published research papers produced by PhD students at the school.
Stray Light in One-cavity Radiation PyrometersCorrections of size-of-source effect and distance effect in radiometric measurements of radianceAn embedded language approach to router specification in CurryAn Embedded Language Approach to Router Specification in Curry
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Numerical calculation of the Fresnel diffraction patterns for periodic objects in measurements with a two-aperture radiometerHardness measurements of metals with the complex refractive indexMathematics I. Differential Calculation (in Spanish)
External links
Official Website
(in Spanish) Including address and career information.
Universities and colleges in Michoacán
Educational institutions established in 1990
1990 establishments in Mexico
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