Ing. Pedro Costa

Product engineer responsible for developing and releasing Driveline components for global programs such as EcoSport and Ka/ Figo, while delivering quality, cost, timing, weight, functional requirements and vehicle attributes. Key Tools: Teamcenter / VisMockUp – Siemens / GD&T / CATIA V5 / nCode GlyphWorks / MS Project / Minitab / MS Office / DFMEA / SCCAFs / Quality History / PVP&R

Engineer responsible for managing the quality metrics, roadmaps, and customers’ claims, Identifing the main quality issues and leading their resolution by using the appropriate quality’s methods (E.g.:6-Sigma, 8D), for continuously improve processes, products, and customer sactisfation. Tools: 6-Sigma methodology / Minitab / MS Office.

Accountable for supporting the Underbody Product development team in new projects, by controlling the deliverables, analyzing the Underbody structural behavior in terms of fatigue, crash, and NVH, and performing validations through experimental tests.

- Cooperate with all teams modeling the components through CAD software and giving them technical advices for a more feasible, robust and ideal design; - Model / assemble the full vehicle putting the components in their appropriate position, thereby providing the visualization of the final product and facilitating the analysis of the packaging, parts and fasteners assemblability, and the static / dynamic clearances. - Predict the aerodynamic drag coefficient through CFX (Ansys) analysis.

- Calculate the theoretical max velocity, acceleration, max slope, resistive forces and power balance, based on Longitudinal Vehicular Dynamics methodologies; - Validate the project by performing experimental tests, and optimize the vehicle and transmission behavior through DOE considering possible configurations of the CVT; - Project the components such as gears, transmission case, shafts, and halfshafts, performing design’ optimization through CAE, take into account the feasibility and cost;

THESIS TOPIC: Development of a computational model for study and prediction of the torque transferring through vehicular driveline system.

THESIS TOPIC: Project plan of an off-road vehicle for BAJA SAE competition participation.

THESIS TOPIC: Application of CFD analysis in vehicle performance calculation.