He received a B.S. degree from the Calaya Institute of Technology in 1975 and a Masters from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in 1977, both in Mechanical Engineering. Since his retirement in 2005, he is affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Guanajuato, Campus Irapuato-Salamanca. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Arizona State University, University of California-Davis, and the French Institute of Advanced Mechanics under the sponsorship of Professor Joseph Duffy, Professor Joseph K. Davidson, Professor Bahram Ravani, and Professor Grigore Gogu, respectively. He has been author or co-author of 40 papers in archival journals and 60 papers in conferences and has been an ASME member since 1975. Areas of interest: theoretical and computational kinematics and applied mathematics