| León Ávalos y Vez* | |
| Order: | 1st |
| Director-General of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) | |
| Term Start: | 1943 |
| Term End: | 1947 |
| Successor: | Roberto Guajardo Suárez |
| Birth Date: | 24 January 1906[1] |
| Death Date: | [2] |
| Alma Mater: | National Polytechnic Institute, MIT |
| Residence: | Monterrey, Mexico City |
| Profession: | Mechanical engineer |
| Spouse: | Carolina del Moral (married on 29 November 1935) |
| Children: | Carolina, León, Teresa, José Luis and María |
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León Ávalos y Vez (24 January 1906 – 1991) was a Mexican mechanical engineer who served as the founding director-general of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (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.[1] 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).
List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty