Héctor J. Altuve Ferrer (born October 5, 1947) is a Dean at the

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) designs, manufactures, and supports products and services ranging from generator and transmission protection to distribution automation and control systems. Founded in 1982 by Edmund O. Schweitzer ...

Monterrey, Mexico Monterrey (, , abbreviated as MtY) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. Located at the foothills of th ...

. He was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(IEEE) in 2015 for ''contributions to power line and transformer protection''. Altuve Ferrer attended Central University of Las Villas in Santa Clara from which he got his BSEE. After obtaining Ph.D. from the

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute ( KPI, ; official full title National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute") is a National university, national public university, public technological university in Kyiv, Ukrain ...

, he served on the faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering at Central University from 1969 to 1993. Between 1993 and 2000, Altuve served as professor of the Graduate Doctoral Program in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School at the

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Universidad (Spanish for "university") may refer to: Places * Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico * Universidad (Madrid) Football clubs * Universidad SC, a Guatemalan football club that represents the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala ...

in Monterrey, Mexico and from 1999 to 2000 was the Schweitzer Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at

Washington State University Washington State University (WSU, or colloquially Wazzu) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Pullman, Washington, United States. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest Land-grant uni ...

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1947 births Living people Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León Washington State University faculty Fellows of the IEEE Place of birth missing (living people) Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni {{Mexico-engineer-stub