Jose Manoel Fernades, PhD

Professor José Manoel Fernandes, PhD

Short Biography

José Manoel Fernandes was born in 1956. He received a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU- Brazil) in 1978. From early 1979 to September 1980, he was involved in the estimation and identification adaptive theory. As a result of this work, in 1980, he received a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC-Brazil). In February 1981 he got a permanent position in the Electrical Engineering Department at UFU as a senior lecturer where he got his tenure position. In February 1986 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Newcastle, Australia as a research scholar. In February 1990 he received a PhD degree for his research in identification, analysis and control of nonlinear dynamics. As a visiting professor, he worked from 1995 to 1997 at the Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble Institut National Polytechnique de Gr, LAG/INPG, France. Currently, he is a Full Time Professor at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR-Brazil) and one of the coordinators of the National Program of Qualification (PNPQ – PROMINP/PETROBRAS) in the southern region of Brazil. He has authored and co-authored over fifty journal papers.

He regularly serves as a consultant to the Government of Parana State and to the Federal Government in the analysis of research proposals. Also serves as a referee to various Engineering and Scientific Journals.

He is a member of Instrumentation Society of America (ISA)

Teaching and research projects supervision

Currently, he is also a member of PPGEE (Electrical Engineering Graduate Program)/UFPR where he lectures courses to Master’s students in Electrical Engineering and also supervises graduate research. Over twenty graduate students have successfully accomplished their research projects under his supervision.

Research

He is the director of the research group LAR (Automatic and Robotics Research Laboratory).  His main research topics include: Estimation and Identification Systems Theory; Control Systems Theory: Classical, Modern, and Advanced; and Industrial Instrumentation and Automation.

Publications

Most published works concern industrial plant modeling and simulation, model approximation techniques, control application, system identification and analysis.

Postal and Electronic Addresses

Full Professor Jose Manoel Fernandes, PhD

Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica - UFPR

81531-970, Curitiba, PR, BRAZIL

Phone: +55 41 3361-3488, Cell Phone: +55 41 91911919
e-mail: jmanoel.fernandes@ufpr.br