João Vitor Vanzella Dos Santos Email & Phone Number

State Of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

As a Structures Specialist, my role focuses on simulating and developing panels for the vehicle's side impact structure, aiming to enhance torsional stiffness while minimizing any increase in mass.

Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

As the advisor for the chassis team, I supported the team in making critical engineering decisions and provided advanced theoretical knowledge in chassis design, manufacturing, and validation. Additionally, I gave feedback on the integration of the vehicle's components.

Florianópolis E Região, Brasil

As Head of Ampera Racing's chassis team, in early 2020, I carried out an ergonomic study to define the cockpit parameters for the prototype, studied, performed, and later trained team members in TIG welding. I modeled and optimized the chassis and its jigs to ensure the correct dimensions. With the arrival of the pandemic, we developed a plan of action to minimize the pandemic's impact on the team.Later that year, I wasn't the only one on the chassis team anymore, and my responsibility shifted to training my colleagues on area activities, developing leadership, communication abilities, task distribution, and time management skills.During the team's participation in Formula Student Online, we competed against teams from several renowned universities, achieved 4th place overall, and in the specific categories of chassis and ergonomics, we scored 55 out of 60, the highest score relative to our team.

Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

As a trainee at Ampera Racing, I was involved in various tasks: I modeled and assisted in manufacturing the inverters' support for the 2019 prototype, participated in the logistics planning group for the team's competition that same year, and conducted extensive literature searches on topics including ergonomics in vehicles, structural design in motorcars, and finite element analysis (FEA).

Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

My first experience in the professional market was at MSC MED, a start-up structured to support the Health Industrial Complex in the development and validation of medical products. There, common activities I would do were bibliographic research for acceptance criteria and worst case studies, mechanical test requisition for different types of implants and evaluation of them, translation of documents from PT-BR to English, and FEA analysis for definition of the worst-case scenario as well as the elaboration of its report.

Graduação, Engenharia De Produção Mecânica

Mechanical Engineering, Exchange Program