Category
Professor
Organic Unit
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email
jaff@ua.pt
Ciência ID
4E1C-986F-4D55
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9535-2855

Jorge Augusto Fernandes Ferreira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEM) at the University of Aveiro. He has a university degree (1990) and a master's degree (1994) in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications (University of Aveiro) and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (University of Aveiro, 2003). He is the author/co-author of more than 150 articles in book chapters, journals and conference proceedings. He has over 30 years' teaching experience in the areas of Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation, Automation and Control in the theoretical and/or laboratory components; he has supervised or co-supervised 22 undergraduate students, 6 master's dissertations and 5 doctoral theses; he has participated or is participating in 35 research and cooperation projects with industry as principal investigator and as a team member; he has expertise in the area of industrial automation in terms of the design, development and testing of automation solutions; he has expertise in the following essential areas: sensors and actuators (pneumatic, electrical and hydraulic) and in the control part involving hardware and/or software solutions; has experience in the design of control systems, modelling and simulation of physical systems and development of closed-loop control systems; has three 5 patents as a team member. He was Course Director of the Master's in Industrial Automation Engineering (2012-2014), member of the Board of Directors of the Mechanical Engineering Department (2002-2006) and Director of the Mechanical Engineering Department (2006-2011). Industrial automation is his main scientific area of research and development. He has also worked in the areas of control systems, instrumentation, modelling and real-time simulation of physical systems, software engineering related to modelling languages and formalisms, hydraulic and pneumatic actuation systems, implementation of systems for diagnosing mechanical and biomechanical components and systems for generating energy, energy harvesting, sensing and stimulation in implantable medical devices.

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