“A Concurrent Design Facility @ Técnico", December 7, 2022, Wednesday 1.30 pm, Pavilhão de Informática III, amphitheatre FA3

Data: December 7, 2022, Wednesday

Hora: 13h30

Local: Pavilhão de Informática III, amphitheatre FA3

• Orador: Mário Lino da Silva (Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear e Departamento de Física)

• Título: “A Concurrent Design Facility @ Técnico"

• Abstract

Traditional systems are designed in a sequential fashion, with engineers working on the subsystems and passing design information to others one step at the time, which may quickly turn into an ineficient approach for large-scale projects.

Concurrent engineering puts all related engineers, with all their brain power and required tools together with the final user representative - or customer - in the same location at the same time. This allows for iterative design at a fast pace, with customer and designers agreeing requirements and taking decisions in real time to ensure the best design for the right cost and an acceptable risk.

A Concurent Design Facility has been developed and deployed at Técnico. The facility is located in a dedicated room at the Alameda campus and allows for an 8-member team (plus the team-leader) to interact locally towards de development of Space-based designs and applications (among others). The facility also allows for remote connection, allowing larger distributed teams to cooperate/interact. The facility is made available to all the academic community at Técnico, allowing for its utilization as an education tool, or to its aplication towards larger academic-level projects involving specialists between the school different departments.

• Short biographic note

Prof. Mario Lino da Silva was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1978. He has an Aerospace Eng. degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal (2001), and a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from the Université d'Orléans, France (2004). He was an Assistant Researcher at the Instituto  de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, an associated laboratory of Instituto Superior Técnico from 2006 to 2022, and is an Assistant Professor of the Physics Department since 2022. His main research interests focus on the nonequilibrium dynamics of high-speed shocked plasmas (spacecrafts and meteoroids). He has participated in many research projects funded by the European Space Agency, including the preparation of the 2005 Huygens space probe entry in Titan and the design of the space vehicle Schiaparelli which entered Mars in 2016. He has founded and manages the Hypersonic Plasmas Laboratory which hosts the ESTHER shock-tube, which was developed by an international consortium under funding from the European Space Agency.

This is another seminar of the “Seminars @ DEM” cycle.