Geilson Loureiro

Geilson Loureiro is the General Coordinator for Infrastructure and Applied Research at INPE (The Brazilian Institute for Space Research, www.inpe.br) since August 2022. Geilson was the General Coordinator for Space Engineering, Technology and Science at INPE from September 2020 up to August 2022. Geilson was a member of the Science and Technology Committee of INPE from May 2009 to 2013. He is project leader at ISO (International Standardization Organization) Space Systems Engineering committee having worked on TRL (Technology Readiness Level) standard and now leading the development of a Systems Engineering Management standardization initiative. He is professor of Systems Engineering at INPE and Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA, www.ita.br), in São José dos Campos, SP, BRAZIL. He is one of the founders and the president of the INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering, www.incose.org) Brasil chapter since March 2012. He is a technologist of INPE, since January 1988. Since then he has worked on many complex products (most of them satellites) life cycle processes such as: electronic manufacturing, assembly, integration, thermal-vacuum and EMI/EMC testing. He has 63 PhD and Master completions since 2006. Themes include lean development, postponement, project teams, strategic planning, stakeholder engineering, requirements engineering, systems architecture, technology transfer, scalability, acquisition, design for integration, design for the environment, sustainability, organization architecture. In 2007, Geilson led the organization of the CE2007 (http://ce2007.lit.inpe.br) 14th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering with the theme ?Complex systems development: innovation, collaboration and sustainability?. Geilson participated of the NASA CER (concept of exploration and refinement) project at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), from March 2004 up to September 2005, in order to derive space exploration system of systems architectures. Since then he has been helping up to 3 ITA students per year to become visiting students at MIT and to, therefore, improve their careers perspectives. Geilson got his PhD on Systems Engineering from the Manufacturing Engineering department of Loughborough University, in England, in 1999. He worked in collaboration with Ford Motor Company Ltd, in the UK. Geilson developed a method to architect simultaneously a product, its life cycle processes and their performing organizations using systems modeling approaches. He has been providing in-company courses and consultancy to the aeronautic, aerospace, automotive and energy sectors´ companies in Brazil, having developed more than 200 applications of his method. He is a member of INCOSE (www.incose.org, the International Council on Systems Engineering) since 1996, the first ever Brazilian INCOSE member. Geilson got his Master degree at ITA in 1994, working on QFD (Quality Function Deployment) and concurrent engineering. In 1991, he was certified as Quality Engineer by ASQ (American Society for Quality). In 1990, he finished an especialization course on Production Management and Industrial Operations, at FGV, São Paulo. In 1987, he graduated from ITA on electronics engineering.

Geilson Loureiro é Coordenador Geral de Infraestrutura e Pesquisas Aplicadas do INPE (www.inpe.br), CGIP, desde agosto de 2022. Entre setembro de 2020 e agosto de 2022, ele foi Coordenador Geral de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Ciência Espaciais (CGCE) do INPE. É professor de Engenharia de Sistemas Espaciais na pós graduação do INPE, desde 2006. Foi chefe do Laboratório de Integração e Testes (www.lit.inpe.br) do INPE, entre 2013 e 2020. Foi fundador e primeiro presidente da Associação INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) Brasil, em 2012. Contribuiu para a criação e foi professor do curso de engenharia aeroespacial do ITA (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica), entre 2010 e 2015. Trabalhou em diversos processos de ciclo de vida de satélites, desde 1988, no INPE. Fez pós doutorado em pequenos satélites pela Universidade de Wurzburg, na Alemanha, em 2011. Fez pós doutorado em sistemas de sistemas para exploração do sistema solar, no MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), EUA, de março de 2004 a setembro de 2005. Fez doutorado na Universidade de Loughborough, na Inglaterra, em engenharia de sistemas, entre 1994 e 1999. Fez mestrado no ITA, em engenharia simultânea, entre 1991 e 1994. Fez pós graduação na FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas) em administração da produção, entre 1988 e 1990. Fez graduação em engenharia eletrônica no ITA, entre 1983 e 1987. Em 1982, foi primeiro lugar geral no vestibular da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.