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Esteco academy supports aerospace education in Brazil
Esteco Academy has announced that it will support an educational initiative set up by the Aeronautical Technology Institute (ITA) in São Paulo, Brazil and Embraer, a Brazilian aerospace company. Esteco is providing software licences
for its modeFrontier software – to help participants develop skills in design optimisation. ‘Aircraft design is inherently a multidisciplinary task. The program has offered a Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation (MDO) course to motivate students to apply optimisation techniques in their projects,’ said Ana Paula Curty Cuco, research and development engineer at Embraer and scientific advisor in MDO for the ITA masters course. ‘The use of modeFrontier helps the students practice concepts learned during the course in an easy, quick and visual way. They assimilate the subject better, and the pedagogical process becomes more interesting and dynamic. Besides, the application of optimisation techniques can lead to better performance, lower costs and more mature designs. ‘We look forward to learning more about how students will apply our optimisation
LABORATORY INFORMATICS Elsevier donates Unified Data Model to The Pistoia Alliance
Elsevier has announced it is donating its Unified Data Model (UDM) to The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences. The UDM is an XML file format originally developed by Elsevier to improve the upload of external data sets into its tools. It will now be developed and extended under the stewardship of The Pistoia Alliance, with the ultimate aim of publishing an open and freely available format for the storage and exchange of drug discovery data. The UDM will become a
common model allowing data to be easily shared and integrated between parties. This will accelerate drug discovery research and overcome a shared barrier to collaboration. This new model could help
ensure data is a ‘common language’ in the research community, removing research bottlenecks and barriers to collaboration. ‘The absence of universal data standards hurts everybody in life science research and development, and is a huge inefficiency that impedes drug discovery,’ said Dr Steve Arlington, President of The Pistoia Alliance. ‘Life science companies have traditionally developed their own internal infrastructures, which results in a duplication of efforts and in systems that are not interoperable. Collaboration between stakeholders will underpin the future of the life science industry.’ A lack of well-defined data definitions hampers research efforts and collaboration
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initiatives, within and between organisations. The complexity of integrating data between horizontal systems (e.g., in- house Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)) and vertical systems (e.g., ELN used by a CRO or academic partner), also significantly adds to the cost of research projects. The Pistoia Alliance’s
UDM steering committee, which includes Elsevier representatives, will address these issues by creating open data standards for experimental information about compound synthesis and biological testing. ‘Data is the lifeblood of
life science research today, and removing the hurdles to sharing and using data is critical in supporting the industry to deliver innovative and life-saving therapies,’ said Tim Hoctor, vice president,
professional services, Elsevier. ‘Elsevier’s tools are designed to accelerate research and development in the life sciences, and contributing to open source standards is fundamental in unleashing the full potential of technology to enable innovation. We are therefore very pleased to donate the UDM model in support of this cause.’ In 2013, Elsevier co-
developed the UDM with Roche, which was integrating proprietary reaction information in Reaxys, Elsevier’s premier chemistry database. The Pistoia Alliance,
supported by Elsevier, will publish the first version of the extended UDM in Q1 2018. The alliance will then further develop the model in response to members’ feedback.
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technology in the development of their projects, and we wish best of luck to all the prospect graduates’, added Enrico Nobile, Esteco scientific advisor. The Professional Master’s was created
to meet the demand for skilled engineers to support the requirements of Embraer. Launched in 2001 and recognised by the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoameto de Pessoal de Nível Superior), the
programme has trained 24 groups and more than 1,400 engineers, offering them a professional master’s diploma in aeronautical engineering. The objective of the two-year master’s
is to provide the aeronautical industry with highly prepared professionals. The programme includes training designed to help the students develop skills which can be transferred into the aerospace industry. This includes aircraft design projects with specifications defined by Embraer.
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