Miguel Fernández y Fernández, engineer

01_ It was at the end of the first year of the engineering course "at Fundão," in 1966. There were 4 classes of about 100 students each, two in the morning (A and B) and two in the afternoon (C and D). The speaker here was from class A. 02_ The calculus professor for class A was a certain Tourinho, an engineer from the Federal Railroad Network who, claiming he needed to attend a conference abroad on locomotives, was absent and left the final exams to the professor for classe

01_ Basic Sanitation (hereinafter BS) refers to the set of services that handle Potable Water + Sanitary and Storm Sewage + Waste +...

In 1972, Carlos B, at 25 years old, was an engineer at COMA (Metropolitan Drinking Water Company of Buenos Aires). He had a good salary...

In 1978, a young woman, from Minas Gerais, an employee of Banco do Brasil, lived in Rio in a newly rented apartment on Ipiranga Street,...

It was a Saturday in 1977, and a group of four people was outside the Army General Hospital in Benfica, Rio de Janeiro, waiting to visit...

01_ In the 1970s, during one of the many attempts to "contain" inflation in Brazil, Médici and Delfim froze public service prices in...

It was around July 1969, and I was an intern at the central office of Montreal Engineering, at 90 São José Street, downtown Rio. During...

(About Bidet, or “introduction to the study of the bidet”) The civil engineering course had a course called “Building Hygiene” also known...

The UN sponsored excellent postgraduate courses at the Instituto de Hidrologia de Madrid, which was directed by eng. Rafael Heras, and...

The first car at home was a 1961 Beetle, the color of wet brick (ceramic?), bought by my father without telling anyone: surprise. I was 14 years old, the age of my oldest grandchild today. What a joy! To have or not to have a car was the dividing line of castes in society. Feeling part of the consumer society that everyone wants. All yes because “those who disdain want to buy”. Very good memories of the cart, starting with the trips to the "water station" in the south of Mi

It was in 1971 that I discovered the United States (*). It was not on the wings of PanAir, as Fernando Brant and Milton Nascimento would say, but of Braniff, which no longer exists. While discovering the USA, some things remained in my memory: a_ english lessons no matter how many English courses you take, nothing is worth a week on your own in an English-speaking country: _ on the first day in Miami (and in the US), suddenly you talk to the hotel operator and finish wit

In mid-1971, I went to the United States for the first time in my life, together with 7 more selected/invited guests of the USIS (United...

I met Leonard Goldblatt in São Paulo, in 1971, at the company that hired us to run the SAM project, Sistema Adutor Metropolitano:...

My father (*01) was a peasant, semi-literate, from Orense, in Galicia, Spain, who emigrated in 1932, at almost 21 years of age. He left (and arrived) illegally, like so many others, trying not to get involved in the then already foreseeable Spanish civil war. The troops, both the Falangists and the communists, passed through the rural villages recruiting people of military-service age. The news would run ahead, the families would gather the “little money” they could, and th

I believe it was around 1980. Now I don't remember for sure anymore. Petrobrás launches a tender for the installation of current graphs...

My friend Rafael, around 1972 to 1973, single at the time, 25 years old, in the prime of his life, worked at the former COMASP (today...

The opening ceremony, at the brand new São Paulo Expo, had something new: the stage was surrounded by rows of armchairs. Some thought it...

As a result of the "gluten-free" text that we wrote and disseminated, we received many suggestions and contributions. We need to review...

The 13th congress of AIDIS (Asociación Interamericana de Ingenieria Sanitária) was held in Asunción, Paraguay, in August 1972. As it is...

I was told this by my excellent colleague and friend José Eduardo W. Cavalcanti (Chemical Engineer specialist in water bio-chemistry,...