UAM Azcapotzalco is one of the five campi of the

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, the second best ranked

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public university for the year 2018, according to

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. This campus is in the northern area of

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, in the

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Azcapotzalco Azcapotzalco ( nci, Āzcapōtzalco , , from ''wikt:azcapotzalli, āzcapōtzalli'' “anthill” + ''wikt:-co, -co'' “place”; literally, “In the place of the anthills”) is a Boroughs of Mexico City, borough (''demarcación territorial'') i ...

. It is one of the three campi built shortly after

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decreed the foundation of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in 1974.

History

The creation of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana was a response to the increasing demand for public higher education in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, which by those years was undergoing severe demographic changes due to a process of

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that started in the early 1940s. The main idea was to cope with the demand for this service throughout the outskirts of the metropolitan area, locating the university's campi in the outlying boroughs. Following this principle, UAM Azcapotzalco was one of the first three campi built between 1974 and 1975, along with UAM Xochimilco and UAM Iztapalapa.

Undergraduate studies

UAM Azcapotzalco hosts 17 majors, lasting between 12 and 15 quarter-terms or four and five years respectively. These programs are organized in three academic divisions as follows:

Basic Sciences and Engineering Division

Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering is a professional engineering discipline that encompasses broad scientific topics like chemistry, biology, ecology, geology, hydraulics, hydrology, microbiology, and mathematics to create solutions that will protect and a ...

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

Computer Engineering Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers ...

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

Electronics Engineering Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current f ...

Engineering Physics Engineering physics, or engineering science, refers to the study of the combined disciplines of physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and engineering, particularly computer, nuclear, electrical, electronic, aerospace, materials or mechanical en ...

Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex process (engineering), processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, kno ...

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

Metallurgic Engineering Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...

Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

Social Sciences and Humanities Division

Management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities o ...

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

Design Sciences and Arts Division

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

* Visual Communication Design *

Industrial Design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...

Graduate studies

As of 2017, UAM Azcapotzalco offers 22 graduate programs. They are divided as follows:

Basic Sciences and Engineering Division

*MSc in Computer Science *Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering: Specialization, MSc and PhD with Environmental or Materials sciences applications *MSc/PhD in Structural Engineering *MSc/PhD in Process Engineering
MSc/PhD in Optimization

Social Sciences and Humanities Division

*Specialization in Mexican Literature of the 20th century *Specialization in Higher Education Sociology *MA in Law *MSc in Economics *MA in Contemporary Mexican Literature *MSc in Metropolitan Planning and Policies *Graduate Studies in Historiography: Specialization, MA and PhD *MSc/PhD in Economic Sciences *MA/PhD in Sociology *Graduate Studies in Historiography *Graduate Studies in Managerial Sciences

Design Sciences and Arts Division

*Graduate Studies in Ecological Design *Graduate Studies in Urbanism *Graduate Studies in Product Design and Development *Graduate Studies in Information Design and Visualization *Graduate Studies in Landscape Design, Planning and Conservation *Graduate Studies in Rehabilitation, Restoration and Conservation of Tangible Heritage

Notable people

Faculty

*Celso Garrido Noguera, founding member of CLACSO's (Latin American Council of Social Sciences) "Entrepreneurs and State in Latin America" project and

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collaborator *Edmundo Jacobo Molina, executive secretariat for

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(IFE) since 2008 *Rosa Albina Garavito Elías, Mexican politician *Lucia Tomasini Bassols, notable translator and foreign language teaching specialist

Alumni

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from 2001 to 2007, :es:Rafael Tovar y de Teresa was president of

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from 1992 to 2000, and

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from 2015 to 2016. *Pablo Moctezuma Barragán, Mexican politician, writer and scholar *Francisco Alfonso Durazo Montaño, spokesperson for Mexican President

Vicente Fox Quesada Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the ...

Rubén Albarrán Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega (born February 1, 1967) is a Mexican musician, singer, song writer, music producer, and activist. He is a member and founder of the alternative rock band Café Tacvba. As singer and frontman of Café Tacvba, the arti ...

, musician, frontman of rock band

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*Jesús Humberto Ramos Rosario, ''

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'' illustrator *Arturo Sánchez Gutiérrez, Mexican sociologist and current counselor of the Electoral Federal Institute (2003- )

References

External links

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Main Portal
(in Spanish)
Portal Grupo Tematico de Algebra y Geometria. Coordinador Dr. Ricardo López

UAM-Azcapotzalco site
(in Spanish) {{Authority control Universities in Mexico City