Welcome Message from the Organizing Committee

Welcome to the 2025 COBEM – 28th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering. The COBEM 2025 organizing committee would like to thank each of you for attending this conference to exchange ideas on the future of Mechanical Engineering, in Brazil and abroad. The theme “Artificial Intelligence for a Sustainable Tomorrow” was selected for COBEM 2025 recognizing the possibilities of AI and sustainable innovation in engineering, building on ABCM’s five-decade legacy of influence and progress.

The conference includes a full array of keynote speakers, plenary sessions, and technical paper presentations and posters, short courses, award sessions, committee and ABCM sessions, and the COBEM EXPO, an open forum for discussion where attendees can interact and network with the community, including our partners and sponsors. New events this year, open to all attendees, include the Pitch Day, two Roundtables on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and on Sustainability, and a presentation from members of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, IUTAM and of the International Federation for the Promotion of Machine and Mechanism Science, IFToMM, and a space for children.

The conference expects around 2,000 scientists, researchers, faculty, students, and professional engineers to present and discuss all topics of the following symposia: Aerospace Engineering; Bioengineering; Combustion; Dynamics, Control, Vibrations, and Acoustics; Education; Energy and Thermal Sciences; Engineering Design; Fluid Mechanics and Rheology; Fracture, Fatigue, and Structural Integrity; Materials and Manufacturing Engineering; Mechatronics and Automation; Nano and Microfluidic and Microsystems; Non-linear Phenomena; Offshore and Petroleum Engineering; Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration; Smart Materials and Structures; Solid Mechanics, and Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling.

The organizing committee acknowledges and appreciates the continued support of CAPES, CNPq, ABCM members, the national and international mechanical engineering community, and the industry, without which this conference would never have been possible. The generous financial support provided by our patrons is also a key factor to holding the conference, and their exhibits provide a welcome interactive visual component to the conference. Please be sure to visit the exhibition booths.

We also thank the scientific coordinators, reviewers and all authors. Special thanks are due to the Engineers without Borders, ESF, of Curitiba, as well as the organizing universities’ team of undergraduate, graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, for their voluntary work.

It is the hope of the Organizing Committee that each of you will find the conference to be enjoyable, stimulating, and enlightening.

Last but not least, all participants are invited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ABCM in this special year of 2025. Please be also sure to attend the opening Cocktail reception, Coffee breaks, the Happy Hours and the Conference dinner.

We look forward to seeing you in Curitiba next November.

Prof. José Viriato Coelho Vargas, UFPR
Chairman
Prof. Álisson Rocha Machado, PUCPR
Co-Chair
Prof. Diogo Berta Pitz, UFPR
Treasurer
Profa. Cássia Maria Lie Ugaya, UTFPR
Scientific Editor
Profa. Giuliana Sardi Venter, UFPR
Vice-Scientific Editor
Prof. Luís Mauro Moura, PUCPR
Executive Director (Logistics)
Prof. André Bellin Mariano, UFPR
Director of Scientific Outreach
Prof José Manoel Balthazar, UNESP
ICONNE Chair