René Vinicio Sánchez Loja

Politecnica Salesiana University Ecuador

René Vinicio Sánchez Loja is a full professor at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (UPS), Ecuador. He obtained his master's degree and Ph.D. in Industrial Technologies Research from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain. He also has a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia. Since 2004, he has been a professor at UPS, mainly in areas related to sequential process automation. In 2014, he founded the Industrial Technologies Research and Development Group (GIDTEC) and completed a guest Ph.D. abroad at Chongqing University of Technology and Business, China. He has been a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2022. He has extensive experience in conference organization, technology project implementation, and research project management and execution. Currently, he has more than sixty publications to his credit. He is also a reviewer for several high-impact journals. His current interests include project management, condition-based maintenance, engineering education, and Industry 4.0, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

René Vinicio Sánchez Loja