Catholic Bolivian University "San Pablo" (UCB)

Department of Civil Engineering

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Néstor René Espinoza studied in Chile Civil Engineering and made his Ph.D. in Germany (RWTH-Aachen).  He has more than 30 years of professional experience and works as independent consultant as well as lecturer at the UCB in the field of Soil Mechanics, Applied Geotechnic and Foundation Engineering. Néstor René Espinoza has a great national and international working experience in consultancy services, having participated in the design of landfills in relation to the geotechnical characteristics of the place and in the management of residues coming from the mining industry, especially those related with mine tailings. He has also been working on sealing characteristics and leachate propagation in landfills, participating in the decontamination of the Sanitary Landfill in Santa Cruz (Bolivia).  Due to his wide experience in the implementation of projects in developing countries he is aware of the barriers that have to be overcome in those countries.

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Wladimiro Salinas studied Civil Engineering in Germany and got his diploma at the "Technische Hochschule" Stuttgart in 1964.  He worked as Sanitary Engineer at F.H.Kocks K.G. in Giessen - Frankfort, Germany and in La Paz, Bolivia. He was appointed Director of the Municipal Department of Sanitation (city cleaning and waste disposal) in La Paz. Later he was Director of the Sanitary Engineering Department of the new National Ministry for Urban Planning, until he and other six professionals decided to found  an own consulting firm, the "Centro Profesional Multidisciplinario" – CPM Consultants, where he still works as General Manager. His experience in the academic sector began in 1960 as a student, when he worked at the Institute for Waterworks of Professor Tölke in Stuttgart. After returning to Bolivia, he was appointed Co-Director of the new Hydraulic Institute of the University San Andrés, a joint venture with the Technical University of Berlin. For 25 years he worked as professor at the University of San Andrés in La Paz and lectured Applied Hydraulic and Hydraulic Works.  Since 1999 he lectures Channel Hydraulic at the UCB.