Academia Panamericana de Ingeniería
Academia Pan-Americana de Engenharia
Pan American Academy of Engineering
MAURÍCIO NOGUEIRA FROTA
Mechanical
Engineering, Universidade do
Associate
Professor and Researcher at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, since 1971.
Head of the
Post-Graduation Program in
Metrology. International
Consultant for the World Bank. Council Member (Science and Technology) of the
Brazilian National Observer. Past
President of the Inter-American Metrology System (SIM). Past
Vice-President of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO). Former Director for Scientific and Industrial Metrology of the National
Institute for Metrology, Standardization
and Industrial Quality (INMETRO). Past-President of
the Brazilian Society
of Metrology (SBM).
Full Professor (recently
retired) of Industrial
Production Engineering at
the Federal Fluminense
University.
International
Senior Consultant for the World Bank. International
Senior Consultant for
the United States
Agency for International
Development (USAID/Pragma Corporation). Technical
and Scientific Assessor
and Consultant for
several private and
governmental organizations:
Ministry for Science and Technology of Brazil, Guatemala, Chile
and Costa Rica;
Brazilian National Metrology
Institute (INMETRO); Brazilian
Agency for Financing Studies and
Projects (FINEP), Brazilian
Research Council (CNPq);
Coordination for Human Resources
(Ministry of Education, CAPES); World Bank; State Agencies Funding S&T in Brazil (State of São Paulo/FAPERJ, State of
Rio de Janeiro/FAPERJ; State
of Pernambuco/FACEP; Industrial
Federation/CNI; SENAI, SEBRAE, SERPRO, among others. Invited speaker
in the sixth Knowledge Economy
Forum, 2008.
Member of
the Russian Academy of Metrology, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1998; of the
Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences (ABCM) and of The Brazilian Society of
Metrology (SBM).
Most Recent
Publications are: “Evaluating the measurement uncertainty”; “Assessment of
the economic impact
of product certification”; “The Chemical
metrology approach”; “Education in
metrology and instrumentation”; “Assuring the
reliability of mass spectrometry”; “Combined economic
impact of certification
and macroeconomic variables on
Brazilian industrial products”.
Recognition for
relevant Metrology Services,
Inter-American Metrology System. Tenth Anniversary of the Chemical Metrology Programme in the
