142 April 2018

Madrid’s Chartered Institute of Industrial Engineers has awarded Victoriano Muñoz Cava its 2018 Honourable Mention for Career Achievement for his contribution to industry, engineering and society.

The awards ceremony will be held on 5 July at Madrid's Hotel Villa Magna.

Victoriano Muñoz Cava presides Fundación Juanelo Turriano.

On 11 April Victoriano Muñoz Cava and Alcázar Rus Ruiz concluded an agreement whereby Fundación Juanelo Turriano will custody the Jorge Miguel Soler Valencia collection of drawings.

The foundation’s  library will digitise this collection of over 200 original drawings and 400 photographs for use by researchers.

Industrial heritage expert Jorge Miguel Soler Valencia (1955-2016) received the García-Diego International Prize in its second edition and collaborated with the foundation in reconstructing the Royal Mint Museum at Segovia.

The exhibition ‘The Andalusian Garden’ will be on display at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s Faculty of Islamic Science at Doha, Qatar from 15 April to 31 May.

Organised by Fundación de Cultura Islámica (FUNCI), this exhibition has been shown at Madrid, Cordova, Seville, Rabat, Marrakech, Kuwait City, Alepo, Dweir, Medina al-Munawarah and a number of other cities.

It features a scale model of an Islamic waterwheel on loan from Fundación Juanelo Turriano.

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Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo will present his book Ni pedir ni rehusar: artículos y conferencias sobre ingeniería e ingenieros [neither entreat nor refuse: articles and lectures on engineering and engineers] on 16 April at 6:00 PM at Madrid’s Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers.

Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo is a Fundación Juanelo Turriano trustee.

For reasons of space, you are requested to confirm your attendance here

José Manuel Sánchez Ron, History of Science professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Royal Academy of the Spanish Language fellow, will deliver an address at the National Library on at 7:00 PM on 17 April entitled The cosmos, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

José Manuel Sánchez Ron is a Fundación Juanelo Turriano trustee.

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