He went on to receive his masters from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) in 1976 in electronics and communications and his doctorate from the University of Essex, England in 1979.
[3][4] Currently he is with the post graduate division of the School of Engineering and Information Technologies at Campus Monterrey, and has directed over seventy theses and dissertations.
[2][4] 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.
[5] 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 .
[2][5] 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.