1st Polytechnica Symposium & USP Strategic Workshops on Engineering Grand Challenges

• Grant number: 18/06828-4
• Support Opportunities: Organization Grants - Organization of Scientific Meeting
• Start date: August 06, 2018
• End date: August 07, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Emílio Carlos Nelli Silva
• Grantee: Emílio Carlos Nelli Silva
• Host Institution: Escola Politécnica (EP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The main goal of this event is to bring together important international scientific leaders in all branches of engineering, to discuss engineering grand challenges that engineering will face in the next decades. The event will carry six or seven keynote speakers, which will cover major issues associated to the engineering, and discussion sections. Day 1 - August 6th, 2018 - 9:00h - Perspectives on Manufacturing Automation under the Digital Convergence - Shimon Y. Nof - 10:30h - Coffee Break - 11:00h - Origami tubes assembled into stiff, yet reconfigurable structures and metamaterials - Glaucio H. Paulino - 14:00h - Ordered rate constitutive theories for non-classical thermoviscoelastic solids with dissipation and memory - J. N. Reddy - 15:30h Coffee Break - 16:00h - Design, Construction and Management for Data Rich Advanced Infrastructure Systems - Lucio Soibelman. Day 2 - August 7th, 2018 - 9:00h - Topology Optimization for Fluid Mechanics Problems - Shinji Nishiwaki - 10:30h - Coffee Break - 11:00h - Power Density As The Key Enabler For Electrified Mobility - Andrew Alleyne - 14:00h - Panel Session with all Keynote Speakers on New Challenges of Engineering - J. F. Justo (mediator) - 15:30h Coffee Break - 16:00h - Polytechnica Official Release - Emilio C. N. Silva (editor) (AU)