Short Courses

ROOM: Armação Room (ARM), Exhibition Hall B, street level

WHEN: Tuesday, Dec 5, 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

REGISTRATION: https://inscricoes.ufsc.br/ipcourse

SUMMARY: Intellectual property protection is essential to fostering innovation and a strong and enforceable patent is required for the protection of important technology for commercialization. A lack of exploration of IP rights, substantially limits the amounts of funds available for artists and researchers to engage in creative activities and research and development, while, at the same time, reducing the visibility of their institution to their peers.  Without protection of ideas, businesses would not reap the full benefits of their inventions, particular small businesses and those dealing with breakthrough technological advances that require large sums of resources for development. Unfortunately, engineering and science education curricula are void of any effort to teach the basics of IP and how engineers and scientists – those contributing the most to inventions – should avoid even the simplest pitfalls about IP protection of their innovations.

This presentation will first provide an overview of the basic concepts of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights.  The interplay, differences and relationships between each of these types of IP will also be discussed.  We will then focus on the necessary working knowledge from a legal perspective related to several important issues in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, including patentability, preparation of strong and enforceable patent applications, claim and specification drafting, and licensing.  The role that inventors and other persons involved in the creation of new technology, such as students, scholars, and tech-transfer professionals, will be discussed so as to assure the development of the needed legal protection for a successful product.

ROOM: Armação Room (ARM), Exhibition Hall B, street level

WHEN: Tuesday, Dec 5, 8 am – 10:00 am; Tuesday, Dec 5, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm

REGISTRATION: https://inscricoes.ufsc.br/cfdcourse

SUMMARY: The numerical simulation of engineering problems involving fluid flows, known as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), is becoming increasingly important in solving complex engineering problems, especially in the context of digital twins, IoT and artificial intelligence, as simulation plays a crucial role in these applications. This short course teaches the basics of the finite volume method, the main numerical technique used in CFD, and then demonstrates the application of this methodology to various engineering problems.

The first part of the course deals with the conservation equations, their integration using the finite volume method, interpolation functions and aspects of the solution of the linear system. For both cell-center and cell-vertex methods. An extension of CFD techniques for poroelasticity with respect to pressure oscillations is briefly presented. In the second part, selected examples of fluid flows are shown to demonstrate the performance of the methodology. The construction of geometries and the creation of models are discussed. Real engineering problems are presented using modern tools available, showing that numerical simulation is inextricably linked to the progress of Industry 4.0.

ROOM: Armação Room (ARM), Exhibition Hall B, street level

WHEN: Wednesday, Dec 6, 8 am – 10:00 am; Friday, Dec 8, 8 am – 10:00 am

REGISTRATION: http://inscricoes.ufsc.br/openfoam-cobem2023

SUMMARY: OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software that has been under development since 2004. It has a large user base in most areas of engineering and science, both in commercial and academic organizations. OpenFOAM has a wide range of functions for solving complex fluid flow, heat transfer, acoustics, solid mechanics and electromagnetics.

This course provides an introduction to the basic installation and programming issues. It is taught through a combination of lectures with slides and practical lessons in which students carry out exercises on less complex problems.

After completing the exercises, problems whose experimental results can be found in the literature are studied. Modeling of initial and boundary conditions and the importance of analyzing the results will be studied.

Teaching is combined with the use of Moodle to apply questionnaires, provide materials and communicate.

ROOM: Armação Room (ARM), Exhibition Hall B, street level

WHEN: Thursday, Dec 7, 8 am – 10 am; Friday, Dec 8, 1:30 pm -2:50 pm

REGISTRATION: http://inscricoes.ufsc.br/latexcourse

SUMMARY: LaTeX is a powerful typesetting language for document preparation that is widely used for the production of papers, theses and dissertations, slide presentations and posters. This short course will provide an overview on LaTeX, with focus on its applications in academia. The basis of the language will be presented, including the typesetting of equations and tables, the positioning of floating elements such as figures and tables, the usage of cross-references and bibliography, and the customization of the document layout. More advanced topics will also be discussed, such as: the package beamer for producing slide presentations and posters; creation of custom commands and environments; and how to draw and plot graphics in LaTeX. The course is intended for both people who have never used LaTeX and for those who have some familiarity with the language.