Luis Manuel Sánchez Ruiz is SEFI Former Vice President (2015-20). He has been employed by Technical University of Valencia (UPV, Spain), since 1980 where he became Full Professor in 2000. He had been a Visiting Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA on several occasions during 1992-99. He has worked with Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Engineering students. Since 2005, his lecturing addresses to Aerospace Engineering. He has full language competence in English and Spanish, can communicate in Italian and French, and can follow Portuguese.
He has published over 10 textbooks for Engineering students and over 150 papers in papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include Engineering Education as well as Functional Analysis and its applications. His supervised dissertations in these fields show the spectrum and transition STEM -> STEAM and comprise: “Study of some barrelledness conditions in locally convex spaces (2002)”, “Analysis, proposal and development of some objective measure in 123/-mIBG scientigraphies for neuroblastoma patients (2015)”, “Computational assessing model based on performance and dynamic assignment of curriculum contents (2016)”, and “STEM subjects face the Haptic Generation: the iScholar (2020)”.
Former IFEES Executive Member during 2017-19, Member of the Board of Directors (Administrative Council) of SEFI since 2012, Director of the UPV Programs Office with USA/Canada and Asia/Pacific, Academic Co-ordinator of Mediterranean University of Science and Technology, Vice Dean and Head of International Relations at ETSID (UPV).
He has been Academic Coordinator of several transnational programmes at UPV such as the financed by the European Commission Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Programme IDEAS, Innovation and Design for Euro-Asian Scholars involving universities from India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Bhutan and Nepal, or a triple degree programme between UPV, University of Parma and New Jersey Institute of Technology NJIT. He has been working for IEE Frontiers in Education Conference Program Committees. He has recently been involved in several EACEA projects such as ACADEMICA meant to harmonise and update Higher Education in Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan), and THINKING SMART related to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization (RIS3). He has participated in international events hosted by ASEE, Zhejiang University and Education Committee of Chinese Academy of Engineering, CAST, FEAIP, ICEE at Tsinghua University, World Engineering Education Forums (WEEF), ASEF events such as Asia-Europe Education Workshops, ECED European Convention for Engineering Deans being co-Chair of the one organized in Valencia 2015.
He is currently member of the Board of Directors of SEFI, the European Association for Engineering Education, UPV Director Research and Innovation Programs Area, UPV Liasion at CESAER “Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research”, member of the Editorial Board of Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae, Consultant Professor at NPU (Xi’an, China) and Coordinator of GRIM4E, GRoup of Innovative Methodologies and assessment For Engineering education at UPV.