Doctor
Ordóñez is a civil
engineer from the National University of Colombia,
with a master of science degree in Water Resources from the
University of California, Berkeley, (USA), and a Doctor of
Engineering degree with emphasis in the hydraulics of sediment
transport from the same University. He is one of the founding
partners, of the company, and was its general manager for
25 years, until 2001.
During
his 40 year career, Dr. Ordóñez has participated
in more than 600 civil engineering
projects with emphasis in fluvial and coastal
engineering, sedimentation engineering and river basin management.
He has national and international recognition for his academic
work in river and coastal hydraulics.
Dr.
Ordóñez has been an international
consultant in the USA, and in several countries
in South and Central America, as well as in Spain. In Colombia,
he has been principal investigator and project director in
many important projects including the Cerrejón Coal
project, the largest open pit coal mine in the world; several
navigation projects in the Magdalena River, and the construction
and operation of 10 large hydraulic models of river works
and hydraulic structures. He has also worked in many sedimentation
studies in rivers, lakes and reservoirs and has been a consultant
in watershed management and erosion control projects in several
large river basins in Colombia.
In
the area of environmental engineering, Dr. Ordóñez
has participated in the evaluation of environmental impacts
of large infrastructure works, such as roads, pipelines, dredging
and hydroelectric projects, and has directed monitoring efforts
to determine and control some of these impacts for the mining
and petroleum industries.
Aside
from his consulting work, dr. Ordóñez is a professor
of civil engineering at the National University of Colombia,
teaching river and coastal engineering courses in the graduate
program of the school of civil engineering since 1983. He
has also been a visiting professor at many other universities
in Colombia, such as the University of the Andes in Bogotá,
the University of Cartagena, and the University of the North
in Barranquilla, and also at the University of La Plata in
Argentina and the University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga
in Ayacucho, Peru. He has directed more than 80 engineering
theses in these Universities, and has written over 70 international
papers in his different fields of expertise.
Dr.
Ordóñez is a legal expert for the Council of
State of the Republic of Colombia, and for the Centers of
Conciliation of the Colombian Society of Engineers and the
Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá. He is a previous president
of the Hydraulic Division of the Colombian Society of Engineers
and a past president of the Latin American Regional Council
of the International Association for Hydraulic Research. He
was awarded an honorary recognition and the keys of the city
of Oakland California, as Foreign Student of the year 1973,
and has also been awarded the Order of Merit Decoration “Julio
Garavito” of the Republic of Colombia, in recognition
of his academic and professional
career, by the Ministry of Transportation
in 2000.
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