Jean Caprace
Director Of Academic Affairs at COPPE / UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolJean Caprace is a maritime research engineer and academic leader with 11 years of professional experience and a PhD in engineering, currently serving as Director of Academic Affairs at COPPE/UFRJ and Editor in Chief of Marine Systems & Ocean Technology. He combines deep expertise in ship and offshore structural optimisation, life-cycle cost assessment, production simulation and lean manufacturing with a pragmatic, results-driven leadership style honed while heading graduate programs and research labs. Over seven years he led EU-funded projects (INTERSHIP, MARSTRUCT, IMPROVE, BESST) delivering tools and optimisation algorithms directly adopted by shipyards, and has published nearly 40 peer-reviewed papers. His work uniquely bridges theoretical structural optimisation and practical production scheduling—tackling design complexity from concept through manufacturing. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he is active in the international marine community (ISSC) and has a track record of translating research into industrial competitiveness.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Engineering, PhD, Engineering at University of LiègeIndustrial Engineer in aeronautics, Engineering, Industrial Engineer in aeronautics, Engineering at ISIB - Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles
French, English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (3)
sensor8
node-server6
raspberry-pi4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:935 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
jdcaprace/signalk-raspberry-pi-ina219
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
SignalK node server plugin that reads data from ina219 current/voltage/power sensors on Raspberry-Pi
Contributions:25 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
node-serverraspberry-piraspberrypisensorsignalk
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