Professor Enrique Acha get award given by Congress - State of Michoacan, Mexico.
Professor Acha from Department of Electrical energy engineering get very respected prize in Mexico. He get the award given by Congress of State of Michoacan, what is the home state of Professor Acha.Professor Acha is the first academic laureate of Award, since it was instituted in 1978. Earlier award have been given to politicians and artists.
Professor Acha has make long career all over world. Enrique Acha is an electrical engineer from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), first in his generation with honors, Master of Science in Electrical Power Systems by the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM), Master of Systems Analysis Electricity, University of Manchester, England, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Professor Acha served, before coming to Tampere, long time in University of Glasgow.
His recearch area is power systems analysis and power electronics applications in renewable energy systems. In this area he has published 3 books, which latest is also translated to Chinese. He has also lectured all over world.
You can look the clip from Award gala: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0AtYekPd1Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player , where Professor Acha gets his medal and is interviewed to television. The clip is in Spanish.