Speaker: Dr. Jesús Manuel Dorador González, ENES Juriquilla
Dr. Jesús Manuel Dorador-González obtained his BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and earned his PhD from Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
He is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and currently serves as General Secretary of ENES Juriquilla, UNAM. Throughout his career, he has taught and developed academic programs in Design, Manufacturing, Automation, Mechatronics, and Biomedical Systems Engineering.
Dr. Dorador has coordinated more than 25 research and innovation projects and supervised over 175 undergraduate and graduate theses in diverse engineering fields. He holds six patents and two copyrights and was President of the Mexican Society of Mechanical Engineers (2006–2008).
In 2006, he received the National University Distinction for Young Academics in the area of Teaching in Exact Sciences. His current research interests include product and prosthesis design, design for assembly and manufacturing, and product evolution.
Mesoamerica—a cultural area extending roughly from central Mexico to northern Central America—was home to highly diverse and long-lived civilizations such as the Maya, Aztec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Olmec, Toltec, and Teotihuacan cultures. By the early 16th century, these societies had developed dense urbanism, specialized craft production, complex political economies, and sophisticated intellectual and scientific traditions.
This talk explores the material foundations, knowledge systems, and social institutions of pre-contact Mesoamerica as a basis for understanding how the colonial encounter transformed local science, technology, and society. It also examines the continuities and changes that occurred throughout the 300 years of the colonial period, offering insight into the historical evolution of innovation and knowledge in the region.