Fernando García Roel (14 August 1921 – 26 February 2009) was a Mexican chemical engineer. He served as the second rector of the

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(ITESM, 1960–1984). García Roel was born in

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, into a family composed by Mario A. García and María Roel, sister of prominent historian Santiago Roel. He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the

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(1943) and a master's degree in the same discipline from the

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(1948). In 1966 he was given the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Distinguished Service Award and in 1984 the Víctor Márquez Domínguez Prize of the Mexican Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was conferred an honorary doctorate by the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1979. One of the streets crossing the main campus of the

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is named in his honor.

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20th-century Mexican engineers National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni Academic staff of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education People from Monterrey 1921 births 2009 deaths Mexican expatriates in the United States {{Mexico-engineer-stub