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Lecturer Biography: Mechanical engineer in the area of thermal systems, with a master’s degree in aerospace propulsion. He completed a sandwich doctorate in 1997 at the Polytechnic School of USP, developing the research for thirty months at the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT / Energy). In 1998 he completed a postdoctoral program at the Combustion and Propulsion Laboratory at INPE and, in 2006, he concluded a second postdoctoral degree at the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington in Seattle (USA). He worked for six years in the industry, primarily as a project and industrial maintenance manager. He has been a professor (associate) at the mechanical engineering department at UnB since 1998. He was coordinator of the Scientific Initiation program (PIBIC) and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UnB. From 2012 to 2019 he was director of Satellites, Applications and Development at the Brazilian Space Agency where he created and/or implemented several programs, such as: SERPENS (Space System for Conducting Research and Development with Nanosatellites); NASA-GLOBE; NASA-I2; MASTA (RCSSTEAP-UNOOSA), E2T Platform (AEB Education and Technology Space); CVT-Espacial (first Technological Vocational Center in the space area in Brazil). He implemented NASA’s technology maturity metric and the TRANSCOTS model at AEB to assess efforts to develop rocket engines, launch vehicles and launch center operations. Currently, he conducts basic and applied research in the following areas: biomass gasification, combustion, rocket and missile propulsion, forest fires, numerical methods, energy systems, among others. He is one of the pioneers in the systematic development of hybrid propellant rocket engine technology in the southern hemisphere.

About the lecture: The lecture addresses criteria for success of a technological development, innovation models (Science Park & Technology Park), organizational structure of the Science and Technology Park, technological platforms implemented in PCTec, concept of Innovation Readiness Level (IRL), modalities of iteration between the business sector and university and innovation contexts within the scope of the University of Brasilia.

About the lecture: Flavio Pessutte de Castro is currently Executive Manager of Tooling at Volkswagen Brasil. He joined Volkswagen-Anchieta tooling in 2000, in the area of CNC machining programming with CAD / CAM systems. From 2009 to 2014 he worked at Volkswagen in Puebla, Mexico, to found a new Tooling at the Mexico plant. From 2014 to 2019 he was responsible for Tool Construction at Volkswagen do Brasil. He has been working in the machining area since 1989, with experience in the Brasinca, Vigorelli and Karman Ghia industries. He holds a degree in Production Process Technology and has just been named a CNPQ researcher. He works on research projects in partnership with UFSC and UFABC universities, promoting university-industry integration.

Lecturer Biography: Gustavo Bispo is a chemical engineer, specialized in data analysis, statistics and programming. He acts as an advisory technical seller in the line of equipment for measuring surface mechanical properties, at Anton Paar Brazil.

About the lecture:  The evaluation of different surface mechanical properties of a material is important for many industries, in different stages of manufacture, until the final product. With increasingly sophisticated materials and increasingly complex processes, it is also necessary to improve the way of evaluating and characterizing their properties. With this focus, the lecture will present three techniques for evaluating some properties: instrumented indentation (hardness tests), scratch resistance tests (scratch testers) and tribology, explaining the basic theory of each one and applications in different areas, such as additive manufacturing, metallurgy, and polymers.

Brief curriculum: Rander Pereira Avelar, Dental Surgeon (Federal University of Goiás), Master in Health Sciences (University of Brasília), PhD in Restorative Dentistry (Unesp/São José dos Campos-SP), Prof. UFG(1995), Prof. ODT/FS/UnB (1996/2014). Currently technical manager of the company CPMH (manufacturer of customized implantable devices).

Summary: In the lecture, Versatus HPC, Dell Technologies and Intel will discuss the various applications of high-performance computing to streamline research and development in the engineering area. They will also talk about the technological solutions and services available and trends in the area.