Since then he has secured over eight million pesos in grant funding from sources such as the Organization of American States, CONACYT, NSF/CONACYT, PEMEX, the Secretaria de Comunicaciones, Arthur D. Little, Motorola and Nortel Networks. He has also done research, consulting and other work for companies such as Motorola, Telmex, PEMEX, Arthur D. Little, Bell-Northern Research, Nortel Networks, the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes and COFETEL. This includes training and the creation of an internship program for graduate students with Bell Northern Research. Muñoz Rodríguez has been an editor with various academic publications and has served as a judge for the Premio Nacional de las Ciencias y Artes . He states “Communication is of the essence of being human. If we do not communicate, we dehumanize; therefore it is something inherent in ourselves. For this reason I consider it important.” The researcher has received various recognitions for his teaching and research including the Premio a la Labor Docente in 1997 and the Premio a la Labor Docente e Investigación in 2006. In 1984 he was accepted to the Sistema National de Investigadores and in 1988 achieved Level III membership. In 1993 and 1999, he was named “distinguished professor in telecommunications” for his work at Bell Northern Research and Nortel Networks respectively, and received the Ericsson National Technology Prize. In 2012, he received the Rómulo Garza Prize for his career at Tec de Monterrey. Muñoz Rodríguez is also a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias since 2005 and the Academia Mexicana de Ingeniería since 2011. Muñoz Rodríguez has published over ninety peer-reviewed articles in international journals and over fifty conference proceedings. He has published Sistemas Inalámbricas de Comunicación Personal (2002), two other books and six book chapters.