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Professor
Manuel Castro
Tagline
Distance and online engineering educator focused on Technology Enhanced Learning and Remote Laboratories
Biography
Electrical and Computer Engineering educator and Professor in the Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED), has an industrial engineering degree from the Madrid Polytechnic University (UPM) and a doctoral engineering degree. He received the UPM Extraordinary Doctoral Award, the Viesgo Award and other Awards. He works as researcher, coordinator and director in projects acting now as senior technical director. He was previously UNED New Technologies Vice-Rector and other management positions. He worked 5 years in Digital Equipment Corporation as senior system engineer. He publishes technical, research and teaching books and articles. He was co-chair of the conference IEEE EDUCON 2010, TAEE 2010 and ICECE 2005 and co-chair FIE 2014 in Madrid. He is Past President Sr of the IEEE Education Society (2017-2018), IEEE Region 8 Educational Activities Subcommittee Chair (2015-2016),nPresident of the IEEE Education Society (2013-2014) and IEEE Fellow. He is co-editor of IEEE-RITA.
Certifications
Special Skills
Technical Specialties
Technology Enhanced Engineering Educator,
Digital Electronics,
Analogue Electronics,
Communications,
Computer Architecture
Interests
Education
Educational robots
Engineering education
Electricity
Electricity grids
Renewable energy
Experience
Dean/Professor/Instructor
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
Member Recognitions
for contributions to distance learning in electrical and computer engineering education
Publications
D. Borge, A. ColmenarM. CastroS. Martín, and E. Sancristobal, "Exergy efficiency analysis in buildings climatized with LiCl–H 2O solar cooling systems that use swimming pools as heat sinks," Energy and Buildings, vol. 43, no. 11, pp. 3161 - 3172, 2011.
Elena Ruiz Larrocha, Jesús M. MinguetGabriel DíazManuel CastroAlfonso VaraSergio Martín, et al., "Proposals for Postgraduate Students to Reinforce Information Security Management Inside ITIL®," International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 16 - 25, 2011.
Sergio Martin, Gabriel DiazInmaculada PlazaElena RuizManuel Castro, and Juan Peire, "State of the art of frameworks and middleware for facilitating mobile and ubiquitous learning development," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 84, no. 11, pp. 1883 - 1891, 2011.
Sergio Martin, Gabriel DiazElio SancristobalRosario GilManuel Castro, and Juan Peire, "New technology trends in education: Seven years of forecasts and convergence," Computers & Education, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 1893 - 1906, 2011.
Camilo Quintans, Antonio ColmenarManuel CastroMaría J. Moure, and Enrique Mandado, "A Methodology to Teach Advanced A/D Converters, Combining Digital Signal Processing and Microelectronics Perspectives," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 471 - 483, 2010.