Celaya, Gto., December 11, 2018.- Dr. Hiram Arroyo Chávez, a full-time professor at the Celaya-Salvatierra Campus, received the Medal for Best Professional Practice by the Mexican Association of Geotechnical Engineering (SMIG).

In the framework of the XX national meeting of Professors of geotechnical engineering held in the city of León, Guanajuato, the SMIG recognized the academic trajectory and the professional practice of Dr. Arroyo, who currently imparts the subject of mechanics of soils in the Civil Engineering career.

The medal received by Professor Hiram Arroyo is named after the renowned engineer Manuel Gonzalez Flores, founder of the SMIG and inventor of the "Control pile", which serves to cement or recement buildings in areas as heterogeneous or deformable as the Mexico City. For this invention he received the National Engineering Award in 1966.

Prof. Arroyo Chávez became a creditor of the medal for Professional practice once the judging panel reviewed his trajectory, his contributions to teaching, the scientific articles published in international arbitration journals and the products of Scientific research in which it participates. His line of research focuses on the development of numerical models and characterization of the stress-deformation behavior of porous materials.

He is currently working on a research project on the mechanical behavior of soils subject to cyclical loads. He is a member of the National System of Researchers, has a postdoctoral in Switzerland on thermodynamic behavior and has been a professor at the University of Guanajuato for 2 years.

In 2018, he participated in the theme "fully coupled model for unsaturated soils" within the international symposium on Unsaturated soils, held in the city of Queretaro, with which the SMIG celebrated its 60th anniversary.

In this event, he shared the chair with leading professionals and specialists dedicated to the professional practice, research and teaching of geotechnics.

The SMIG is an association in charge of providing scientific elements to geotechnics professionals to keep them updated in this area. Through the holding of forums where national and foreign specialists attend, it seeks to promote the development of engineers dedicated to teaching, research and professional practice in this branch of engineering.

The recognition they make to the work of Professor Hiram Arroyo Chavez is a benchmark of the quality of the teaching plant of this university Campus, which promotes the integral training of Civil engineering professionals.

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