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Emilio Rosenblueth
Pages 218-223

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... his career as a consulting engineer. He was appointed professor of the School of Engineering at UNAM in 1954 en cl researcher at the Institute of Engineering of the same university upon its opening in 1956.
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... His work is characterizes! by his ability to identify new relevant problems, define them conceptually, formulate rational frameworks for their analysis, evaluate importance through the use of simplified models preserving tne essential features of the detailed ones, and present his conclusions in forms useful both to those who would apply them in the practice of structural engineering or in the formulation of recommendations, and to those who wouIct take them as starting points for new research programs.
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... Many outstanding projects in Mexico and abroad benefited from his unusual ability to grasp the most relevant theoretical and practical problems, from his clear and wide vision, and from his decided drive to optimize. His involvement in practice was the source of a fertile interaction with his research programs, as well as with his participation in building code revisions.
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... National Academy of Sciences, and in 1977 the National Academy of Engineering, both as a foreign associate member. He was a member of the National Research Council's Division of Engineering Committees on Earthquake Engineering Research, Ground Motion Panel (1966-1969)
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... In 1987 he was designated emeritus professor of UNAM. A few weeks before his death he received from the hands of the president of Mexico the National Engineering Award, granted by the Organization of Civil Engineers of Mexico (Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles de Mexico)
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