{"id":182113,"date":"2015-04-10T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=182113"},"modified":"2015-05-20T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T19:24:27","slug":"this-engineer-is-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/this-engineer-is-different\/","title":{"rendered":"This engineer is different"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Eduardo Cesar<\/span>Eduardo Tomanik, a mechanical engineer, works for Mahle, a multinational German auto parts company. His graduate work was at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) and he gave his name to an international parameter in tribology, a field that studies friction, wear and tear and lubrication. The Tomanik Criterion of conformability of cylinder rings used in automobile engines was presented in a technical article in 2009. Authors in the field have cited the criterion and it has been used in simulation software by many companies throughout the world. Tomanik, 57, began working at Embraer in S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campo (S\u00e3o Paulo State) just after completing his studies at the Polytechnic School at USP. \u201cIt was very important to work there for two years. As a new graduate, I learned how to observe techniques to the letter and consult bibliographies and technical standards,\u201d he says. Afterwards, in 1984, he wanted to return to S\u00e3o Paulo and he began working at Cofap, in Mau\u00e1, in greater S\u00e3o Paulo. Cofap produces auto parts, and in 1997 it was bought and split between Mahle and Magneti Marelli.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Cofap there was less emphasis on technology and I liked learning more about theory. As a result, I was considered odd. But the managers and directors also wanted the company to innovate and they accepted the idea that one engineer could be different. So they gave me permission to begin a master\u2019s program at USP (this was not standard practice in the industry at the time),\u201d Tomanik says. \u201cThey agreed that I could spend one half day per week at USP, where Professor Francisco Nigro, who aligned practice and theory, was my advisor.\u201d Afterwards, Tomanik also completed a PhD with the same advisor and began publishing in scientific journals. He was the first PhD that Cofap \u201cproduced.\u201d \u201cThey even had to create some sort of research title for a person who had my responsibilities.\u201d In 1997, some of the engine work that was being done at Cofap was transferred to Mahle, and everything changed. In German companies, there is greater recognition of graduate degrees and more emphasis on strict compliance with technical standards. The adjustments with the Mahle Research and Development Center in Stuttgart, Germany, went much faster. \u201cMy publications helped significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomanik is a Research and Development (R&D) consultant with the Mahle Technology Center in Jundia\u00ed (S\u00e3o Paulo State), and only once has he held a management position during his 30 years with the company. \u201cAlthough it was interesting, there was a bureaucratic component to the position that I found unappealing, and I decided I would rather go back to research. I have a number of projects with USP, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Halmstad University in Sweden,\u201d he says. Tomanik also works at Sociedade de Engenheiros da Mobilidade (SAE), a mobility engineering company, as coordinator of the Otto Engine Technical Committee. His post-doctoral work involved\u00a0 projects such as the Research Partnership for Technological Innovation (PITE) at FAPESP on the tribology of flex fuel engines, of which Mahle is a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An R&D consultant lends his name to an engine project","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[228],"coauthors":[97],"class_list":["post-182113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-engineering"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182113"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=182113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}