• Spaces of interdisciplinary in/congruity: the coming together of engineers and social scientists in planning for sustainable urban environments 

  Hadfield-Hill, Sophie; Horton, John; Kraftl, Peter; Balestieri, José Antônio Perrella ; Vilanova, Mateus Ricardo Nogueira ; Dias, Rubens Alves ; Soares, Paulo Valladares (International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2020) [Artigo]

  In the context of a globalised interdisciplinary moment, where boundary-crossing research collaborations are valorised, this paper considers encounters between multidisciplinary researchers. Presenting empirics and reflections ...

• Solar-powered Hydrogen Refueling Stations: A techno-economic analysis 

  Micena, Raul Pereira ; Llerena-Pizarro, Omar R. ; de Souza, Teófilo Miguel ; Silveira, José Luz (International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2019) [Artigo]

  Fuel cell vehicles are a possible alternative for allowing a replacement of fossil-fuel based transportation. Thereby, this work's methodology proposes a Hydrogen Refueling Station (HRS) design powered by a photovoltaic ...

• Comparison of water pumping between pump driven by wind mill and electric motor into Brazil 

  Pedroso, T. C. ; Souza, T. M. (Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, 2014) [Artigo]

  The proposed work consists in the comparison of the application of two systems for the pumping of water. With a pump drive by electric motor and the other by wind mill, in order to demonstrate the efficiency and pay-back ...

• Study of parameters of acoustic and thermal comfort of a house built with green bricks 

  Esteves, A. O. ; Souza, T. M. (Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, 2014) [Artigo]

  The proposed work consists in study and check the temperature, humidity and acoustics of a home built with green bricks, made of soil, cement and water, in Guaratinguetá-Brazil, to compare and show benefits in the aspects ...

• Comparison of the parameters of thermal comfort in a house built with green bricks with a conventional construction 

  Esteves, A. O. ; Souza, T. M. (Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, 2015) [Artigo]

  This project consists of the comparison of thermal comfort between a house made of green bricks and a construction made of conventional bricks. The green bricks are made of cement, water and soil and provide many benefits ...

• Evaluation and comparison of microstructural and mechanical properties between carbon steel and microalloyed steel for railway wheel application 

  Oliveira, Luiz Gustavo de; Fukugauchi, Cristina Sayuri; Faria Neto, Antonio dos Reis de ; Guimaraes, Valdir Alves (Materia-rio De Janeiro, 2020) [Artigo]

  The railway sector has always been looking for an increase in the yield of its products involved in the transportation of cargo and passengers. One of the ways to increase the efficiency of this type of transport is based ...

• Development of White Goods Parts in a Concurrent Engineering Environment Based on DFM/DFA Concepts 

  Canciglieri Junior, Osiris; Buiarskey Kovalchuk, Joao Pedro; Rudek, Marcelo; Souza, Teofilo Miguel de ; Pokojski, J.; Fukuda, S.; Salwinski, J. (New World Situation: New Directions In Concurrent Engineering, 2010) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]

  The classical way to manage the product development processes for massive production has been changing as the high pressure for cost reduction, higher quality standards and market seeking for innovation lead to the necessity ...

• A Geometric Modelling in the CAD System from the Medical Images to Support Prosthesis Design 

  Canciglieri Junior, Osiris; Rudek, Marcelo; Francesconi, Tiago; Souza, Teofilo Miguel de ; Pokojski, J.; Fukuda, S.; Salwinski, J. (New World Situation: New Directions In Concurrent Engineering, 2010) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]

  This paper discusses the feasibility of individually designing human prosthesis for surgical use and proposes a methodology for such design through mathematical extrapolation of data from digital images obtained via ...

• An assessment of energy efficient motors application by scenarios evaluation 

  Bortoni, Edson C.; Magalhaes, Leonardo P.; Nogueira, Luiz A. H.; Bajay, Sergio; Cassula, Agnelo M. (Energy Policy, 2020) [Artigo]

  The choice of the most appropriate public policies to foster energy efficiency measures often is a difficult task due to the large number of intervening variables and agents and, also, high levels of uncertainties in ...

• Unveiling Fieldbus Network Technology through Project-based Learning 

  Lucena, Samuel E. de ; Mogames, Omar ; IEEE (2012 Frontiers In Education Conference (fie), 2012) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]

  Fieldbus communications networks are a fundamental part of modern industrial automation technique. This paperwork presents an application of project-based learning (PBL) paradigm to help electrical engineering students ...

• Fuzzy logic and hospital admission due to respiratory diseases using estimated values by mathematical model 

  Vieira, Luciana Cristina Pompeo Ferreira da Silva ; Rizol, Paloma Maria da Silva Rocha ; Nascimento, Luiz Fernando Costa (Ciencia e Saude Coletiva, 2019) [Artigo]

  Hospitalizations due to respiratory diseases generate financial costs for the Health System in addition to social costs. Objective of this study was to develop and validate a fuzzy linguistic model for prediction of ...

• Saving energy by changing the tariff structure and applying flag fees in Brazil 

  Touma, Daniela Wolter Ferreira; Cassula, Agnelo Marotta ; IEEE (2018 Ieee Energy Conversion Congress And Exposition (ecce), 2018) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]

  Trying to mitigate the crisis in the energy sector in the last few years, the Brazilian government implemented tariff flags, which increase the power bills in several areas. Alternative analyses of the power consumption ...

• Improving Science Education Through New Perspectives 

  Kakiuthi, Andre ; Matsuyama, Rafael Tsuji; Pimentel, Fernando Pisani ; Martins de Moraes, Thiago Matheus ; IEEE (Proceedings Of The Fourth Ieee Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (ghtc 2014), 2014) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]

  The demand for engineers has always been high in growing countries, however, the world's seventh largest economy, Brazil, is still far from being one of the places with highest development in engineering. Through the normal ...

• Use of Factorial Designs and the Response Surface Methodology to Optimize a Heat Staking Process 

  Faria Neto, Antonio ; Costa, Antonio Fernando Branco ; de Lima, Michel Floriano (Experimental Techniques, 2018) [Artigo]

  The demand from the automotive industry for lighter and more resistant structures produced at lower costs has shifted the development focus of production processes toward hybrid components. A problem that arises from hybrid ...

• Energy efficiency in buildings: analysis of scientific literature and identification of data analysis techniques from a bibliometric study 

  Cristino, Talita Mariane ; Faria Neto, Antonio ; Costa, Antonio Fernando Branco (Scientometrics, 2018) [Artigo]

  This study uses bibliometrics methods to analyze the specialized literature of energy efficiency in buildings, including the Scopus database during the period of time ranging from 1980 to 2016, to identify the most relevant ...

• Margins of tolerance and reference values for the formant vowels for use in voice therapy for the deaf in commercial computer 

  Leme, André Luis Maciel; Marcelino, Márcio Abud ; Do Prado, Pedro Paulo Leite (CODAS, 2016) [Artigo]

  Purpose: This study presents the margins of minimum and maximum tolerances for the frequencies of the first three formants (F1, F2, and F3) in the pronunciation of vowels of Brazilian Portuguese for use in voice therapy ...

• Optimization of Pultrusion Process Parameters via Design of Experiments and Response Surface 

  Faria Neto, Antonio ; Fernando Branco Costa, Antonio (Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 2016) [Artigo]

  Experimental designs were implemented to investigate the effects of mold temperature and pulling speed on the tensile strength of cylindrical cables produced by pultrusion. A two-level factorial design with a central point ...

• Design of CMOS current-mode multiplier-divider circuit for type-2 FLC applications 

  Dos Santos, Rodrigo Bispo ; Rizol, Paloma M. S. Rocha ; Mesquita, Leonardo (2015 IEEE 6th Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, LASCAS 2015 - Conference Proceedings, 2015) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]

  The design of a low voltage current-mode CMOS multiplier/divider circuit is presented in this paper. This circuit is used to implement the type-reducer block of Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller chip. The simulation results ...

• Desarrollo de un sistema para detección y localización de cadenas de aisladores dañadas a partir de señales registradas en subestaciones 

  Capelini, Renato Massoni; Adami, José Feliciano ; Martinez, Manuel Luis Barreira; Da Costa Parentoni, Marcel Fernando (Ingenieria e Investigacion, 2015) [Artigo]

  This paper presents a novel technique for remotely identifying and locating of damaged insulator strings based on an analysis of noise signals recorded on the ground connection of current transformers installed on transmission ...

• Robust multi-objective optimization of a renewable based hybrid power system 

  Roberts, Justo José ; Marotta Cassula, Agnelo ; Silveira, José Luz; da Costa Bortoni, Edson; Mendiburu, Andrés Z. (Applied Energy, 2018) [Artigo]

  This paper proposes a probabilistic simulation-based multi-objective optimization approach for dimensioning robust renewable based Hybrid Power Systems. The method integrates an Optimization Module based on a multi-objective ...

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