León Ávalos y Vez

Infobox University Chancellor
name = León Ávalos y Vez*


caption =
order = 1st Director-General,
university = Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM)
term_start = 1943
term_end = 1947
birth_date = Birth date|1906|01|24cite book|last=Lajoie|first=Lucian F.|coauthors=Myer, Jack D; Castillo Nájera, Francisco|title=Who's Notable in Mexico|location=Mexico City, Mexico|date=1972|edition=1st ed.|volume=vol. 1|pages=p. 13|oclc=1784836]
birth_place = Atlixco, Puebla
death_date =
death_place =
predecessor =
successor = Roberto Guajardo Suárez
alma_mater = National Polytechnic Institute, MIT
residence = Monterrey, Mexico City
profession = Mechanical engineer
religion = Roman Catholic cite book|last=Mendirichaga |first=Rodrigo |title=El Tecnológico de Monterrey: Sucesos, anécdotas, personajes|publisher=Ediciones Castillo|location=Monterrey, Mexico |date=1982 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NaFPAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=2008-07-04 | oclc= 17117284 |language=Spanish]
spouse = Carolina del Moral (married on 29 November 1935)
children = Carolina, León, Teresa, José Luis and María
website =
footnotes = * Sometimes referred to as León Ávalos Vez|

León Ávalos y Vez (24 January 1906) was a Mexican mechanical engineer who served as the founding Director-General of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM, 1943 – 1946) and as Director-General of the National School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN, 1943).

Ávalos y Vez was born in Atlixco, Puebla, on 24 January 1906 into a family composed by Ignacio Ávalos and Amalia Vez. He received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree in the same discipline from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1929).

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