Professor Enrique Alarcón Jiménez is a Mechanical Engineer, graduated from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, with a professional trajectory of 27 years in technical, commercial, procurement, consulting, innovation, maintenance, intellectual property, circular economy, board of directors, public service, and teaching, among other areas. He has developed in various industrial and academic sectors, including information technology, plastics industry, capital goods, construction industry, automotive industry, auto parts, university-industry linkage, industrial property, copyright, technology adoption and assimilation, analysis of the probability of alignment of public policies with the trade agreements signed by Mexico, and has been a teacher in Higher Education Institutions in Mexico for three decades, focusing on teaching engineering oriented towards process improvement, project planning and execution, an increase of productivity and business competitiveness, as well as mining the process of oral and written communication in business organizations.

He has collaborated with renowned companies and institutions such as Vitro Group, Nissan Motor Co, Negri Bossi ltd, Industrial Atlas Group, ABC Plastics, Co. Vactor ltd, Industrial MC Group, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco Campus (UAM), Technological University of Mexico, National Marina Campus (UNITEC), National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexican Employers' Federation, CDMX Business Center of COPARMEX-CDMX (COPARMEX-CDMX), National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), Mexico City Institute of Science and Technology (ICyTDF), Higher Education Business Foundation, A.C (FESE) and the National Institute of Social Development (INDESOL).

He has contributed to the training of more than 3,500 engineering graduates in Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical, Metallurgical, Environmental, Physics, Electrical, and Electronic Engineering. He has taught more than 350 courses for the training of engineers, highlighting those aimed at increasing the productivity of production systems, project planning and execution, data-based decision-making, as well as process minning of oral and written communication in business organizations. He is responsible for advising at least 60 Terminal and Integral projects. He was in charge of two Social Service projects, in which more than 150 students from different Engineering, Arts and Design, as well as Social Sciences and Humanities degrees, participated. The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) granted him five design patents, and he has a pending patent application related to the manufacture of goods based on principles and techniques from the circular economy, as well as a pending application for registration of a logo and trademark. He developed trade secrets for the manufacturing of products registered in the five design patents, using post-production waste materials.

Stands out for his ability to identify, assimilate, transfer, and train high-profile human capital in the best practices in the field of process engineering to improve productive processes, with the aim of increasing business security, efficiency, and profitability, striving for double-digit progress rates, harmonizing inflation indices of the production process negatively with government indices. Seeks to achieve tangible results reflected in the reduction of response times, elimination of bottlenecks, increased production capacity, improved operating margins, operational scalability, cost reduction, revenue growth, increased customer base, enhanced industrial safety, among others. Additionally, he links the aforementioned to ESG (environmental, social, and governance) criteria applied to the Mexican and international industry, to ensure responsible and sustainable management of resources and production processes. To achieve this, he utilizes state-of-the-art tools and techniques, such as process mining, artificial intelligence, process simulation, digital twins, project management and administration, data science, Patent T-Growth Hacking, among others, focusing on achieving impeccable operation and execution in the productive system and its components.

Among its contributions to the academic and business world, its role as a member of the Scholarship Evaluation Committee for studies abroad for Industrial Engineering of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) stands out. He has been an evaluator of applications for innovation and technological development projects from the business sector at the Institute to Science and Technology of the Federal District (ICyTDF) and the Foundation for Higher Education and Business, A.C (FESE). It has also served as an assessor of social impact projects submitted by organized groups in society at the National Institute for Social Development (INDESOL). In addition, he has participated in Business Chambers such as the Mexican Employers' Confederation, S.P (COPARMEX), as a member of the Business Development Committee where he was appointed Vice President of the Prospective Studies Subcommittee, He was designated Director of the Center for Public Policy Evaluation of the COPARMEX CDMX Business Center and member of the COPARMEX-CDMX Enterprise Development Vice Presidency. It was in charge of the Patent Center of the IPN "Guillermo González Camarena" and Technology Transfer Deputy Director in the Polytechnic Unit for Development and Competitiveness (UPDCE) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).

It is a co-author of a book on diagnostic for process improvement. It has contributed to the writing of chapters in five books related to the topic of business innovation and entrepreneurship. It was in charge of about twenty university-industry linkage agreements with private companies, States and Township government entities, as well as Business Chambers, highlighting an international agreement signed with the Chamber of Commerce of Portugal.

Responsible for managing at least five equipment and infrastructure donation initiatives for the Productive Systems Laboratory at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco Campus. Among these initiatives, the acquisition in September 2023 of 60 licenses for the advanced simulation software Simio, facilitated by a generous academic subsidy from the developing company, stands out. This tool, exclusive for academic use, will significantly enrich teaching and research, allowing students and professors to explore and apply advanced concepts in engineering and productive systems management. We want to express our sincere gratitude to Simio LLC for their commitment to academic excellence and their support for our programs. For more information, visit https://www.simio.com/.

In November 2023, responding to the need to improve educational quality, a pilot initiative was launched in the Systems Department. This focuses on applying transformative learning in the Probability and Statistics course, Group CSI83, with a specific project on Energy Expenditure in Building E's Lighting Systems. Inspired by methodologies from the Harvard school, the initiative seeks to accelerate the students' learning curve, increase their self-instruction and autonomy capacity, and train them in the use of advanced tools for applied engineering projects. The goal is to improve and optimize specific systems, aligning training with current technological and global demands.

Furthermore, leadership in managing these initiatives demonstrates extensive experience and ability to lead interdisciplinary teams, solve complex technical problems, and adapt to varied business and academic environments in fields such as engineering, teaching, applied research, and business development.


Research lines:

Explore how ESG (environmental, social, and governance) criteria can enhance world-class engineering practices and improve production systems.

Analysis of the impact of the Patent T-Growth Hacking methodology on the fulfillment of ESG criteria.

The key role of circular economy and ESG criteria.

Study of the links between public policies and ESG criteria in Mexican companies as a key strategy for sustainable growth and economic development of the country.

Analysis of the improvement of business productivity through effective strategies of oral and written communication based on generative AI tools.