A meeting at ITA rallied professors involved with the chairs programme jointly organised by the CISB, Saab, and Innovair three years ago. The meeting was an excellent opportunity to present the results of this initiative and discuss programme sustainability. Three years ago, a Chair Programme was instituted at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA) for […]
A project for a human-powered aircraft reaches the Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia to increase involvement of mechanical engineering students. CISB participated in the initiative by providing all the institutional support. Since the start of the second semester of this year, the students of the Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, São Caetano do Sul (SP), have been […]
The Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) signs a cooperation agreement with Linköping University (LiU) that includes a partnership to boost the aviation sector. The exchange of academic knowledge between Brazil and Sweden gained a new and important chapter. Last May, the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and Linköping University (LiU) signed yet another […]
An ITA professor is putting together a laboratory to study human behavior in aircraft piloting. The objective is to identify risk factors that form the basis for the development of cabins designed to help reduce pilot failures and, consequently, reduce the risk of accidents. The numbers are impressive. According to a 1998 study by the […]
