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The teaching of engineering is a topic discussed at several conferences around the world, and there is an structured idea on new challenges and methodologies of teaching for engineering students based on the challenges of the future engineer and the training of professionals with expertise in various fields of study, moreover, it is also based on the inclusion of initiatives of entrepreneurship, sustainability...
A brief history of microelectronics in Brazil and the current policies are presented. The motivation and approach for transforming the federal government's key microelectronics research laboratory in an open access user facility are presented.
In times of big business competition, technology can be a very important tool for companies to get an advantage over their competitors. One example is a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is getting more investments from companies around world. In Brazil, this technology is getting more investments from companies, universities and the government. This paper will present the real situation...
The paper is about the manufacturing role within the innovation process of companies in a multiproject and simple product development environment. The aim is to understand the management practices used by manufacturing in the product and process development. It is a multiple case study, conducted in Brazil, wherein three companies from different business sectors - cosmetics, candies and shoes - were...
This paper describes the successful application of management techniques to a R&D power project created for developing new technologies to reduce connection costs of low income customers to the power utility grid. Such innovations will speed up the process of extending the power supplying benefits to all inhabitants of the Bahia State, in Brazil, through a program called universalization. The...
Many telecommunications service provider already dispose of the structure to provide convergent services, although they did not reach an increase on sales in accord with market, investors, and customer's expectations. Most of the incumbents is running their businesses based on a few "cash cow" services. The introduction of new telecommunications services seems not to follow the same rate...
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