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The Professor Emeritus of Tecnun, Manuel Jiménez Conde, passed away.
D. in Industrial Engineering and professor at Tecnun for 40 years, he has held various management positions at Tecnun since 1976.
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Photofile/1995. Gotzon Apaolaza, Manuel Jiménez Conde, Andrés García Rico and Miguel Mateos Mota.
24 | 05 | 2024
On Wednesday, May 22, Manuel Jiménez Conde, Professor Emeritus of the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra, passed away. Tecnunthe School of Engineering of the University of Navarra. A Mechanical Engineer from the School of Engineering of Bilbao and Doctor in Industrial Engineering from the University of Navarra, he held, since 1976, various positions in Tecnun as the Office of Student Affairs, deputy director and director of the Admissions Service.
A native of Cadiz, he was known at the University of Navarra as the "father of promotion". So says Carlos Bastero, director of Tecnun between 1993 and 2008: "He was a pioneer in raising the need to visit schools throughout Spain to get students and many alumni came to the School thanks to his efforts".
For his part, José María Bastero, President of the University of Navarra between 1996 and 2005, refers to him as a teacher devoted to his students, to whom he dedicated his best efforts so that "they would acquire a good intellectual formation and an indelible awareness of their social responsibility".
In the words of Mikel Arcelus, current director of the Admissions Service, Jiménez Conde was "the father of the graduating class of Tecnun and of the University of Navarra. He established the instructions of an excellent graduating class based on his personality, such as gentlemanliness, kindness, closeness, sense of humor, rigor, care for small details, elegance, affection and empathy".