Felisa Córdova

Graduated Electrical Engineer at the University of Santiago de Chile USACH. She obtained the Diplome d´Etudes Approfondis in Electronics and the degree of Docteur Ingénieur at the University of Paris XI, France. Actually, she is profesor and Research Director of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Design, at University San Sebastián USS, Santiago, Chile. She was professor and Director of the School of Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University Finis Terrae UFT, Santiago, Chile. She was professor, Academic Vice Rector and Director of the Industrial Engineering Department at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Santiago de Chile USACH. She was also Director of the Master of Science Engineering Program and Header of Management Area of the Industrial Engineering Department at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile. Her main research interest is in Business Strategy, Operations Management, Knowledge and Neuromanagement. She has participated in several national and international research projects in the fields of Robotics, AGV and Virtual Operation Systems in underground mining, also in ports. She has published many papers in conference proceedings and international indexed journals in the area of Robotics, Operation Management, Knowledge and Neuromanagement. She has participated in the organization of national and international Conferences (CES, IEEE ICA-ACCA, LCA, LCR, SEPROSUL, ICPR, Latincon, ITQM). She was past-president of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control ACCA and she was national councilor, President of the Education Committee and past Vice President of the College of Engineers of Chile. She participated as an institutional accreditation evaluator at the CNA, Chile and also in the CEAB accreditation (Washington Accord) to engineering programs, Canada. She was member of the accreditation board and now she is President of the Directory of Acredita CI.