The Bioengineering Committee of the Brazilian Association of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences (ABCM) is organizing the 8th Brazilian Biomechanical Engineering Meeting – ENEBI 2024, held from June 3rd to 6th in Gramado-RS, Brazil.
ENEBI’s mission is to present and disseminate technological innovations and promote the integration and exchange of experiences among groups working in the field of Biomechanical Engineering in Brazil.
Its main objective is to enable geographically dispersed groups of researchers, associations, companies, and professionals in the field to get to know each other and establish collaborative work relationships. The Meeting is a forum for discussing ideas and needs and disseminating research in the applied areas of Biomechanics. This event aims to integrate graduate and undergraduate researchers working at the interface between Engineering and Health Sciences (Medicine, Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, Dentistry, Medical Physics, Veterinary, Physiotherapy, Physical Education, and Speech Therapy).
The main characteristic of ENEBI is the possibility of submitting works in progress with only partial results, which will be presented and discussed collaboratively by the scientific community to promote the exchange of experiences among professionals with different levels of experience in this multidisciplinary field. This aspect encourages the active participation of undergraduate and graduate students in the event. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of this field of knowledge, professionals and students from engineering, physics, mathematics, medicine, physiotherapy, dentistry, veterinary, physics educators, among others in the biomedical and health sciences are encouraged to participate in ENEBI.
The ENEBI is organized in workshops and mini-course, thematic and current technical sessions, lectures, and poster presentations, the event will also feature an innovation session, where researchers can present prototypes of their developments (see program). This integration is essential to promote science and the technological innovation process in healthcare.
Event History
In the first edition of ENEBI, held in May 2007 in the city of Itaipava-RJ under the responsibility of IME and UFMG, 10 Brazilian states were represented by 56 institutions, with a total of 114 papers submitted, of which 49 were presented in oral sessions and 65 in poster sessions. The success of this initiative, widely embraced by the national academic community, confirmed the need to make ENEBI a regular event. Since then, an increasing number of people interested in the field has been noticed, giving greater prominence to the relevance of research in the field of biomechanical engineering in Brazil. Subsequent editions were organized by different institutions, with the II ENEBI held in 2009 in Florianópolis-SC under the responsibility of the Biomechanical Engineering Laboratory of the University Hospital of UFSC (LEBm/HU-UFSC) and the Analysis and Mechanical Design Group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of UFSC (GRANTE/EMC). The III ENEBI took place in 2011 in Foz do Iguaçu-PR, organized by the Bioengineering group of the Federal University of Paraná. The IV ENEBI took place in 2013 in Vitória-ES organized by the School of Dentistry of UFES. The V ENEBI took place in 2015 in Uberlândia-MG and was organized by the Laboratory of Mechanical Projects (LPM), the Habilitation/Rehabilitation in Paralympic Sports Center (NH/RESP) of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of UFU, and UFTM. The VI ENEBI was held in 2018 in Águas de Lindóia-SP, organized by the School of Engineering of São Carlos-USP, the Center for Information Technology Renato Archer (Three-Dimensional Technologies Nucleus/CTI), and UNICAMP. The VII ENEBI took place only in 2022, remotely, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in a joint effort of EMC, the Biomedical Engineering Program of COPEE/UFRJ, and the School of Engineering of São Carlos-USP.
In this edition, the organization of the 8th ENEBI will be carried out by the Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering of UFRGS (PROMEC), in partnership with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of UFRGS (DEMEC) in the city of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil