William P. Maciel

William P. Maciel

William P. Maciel

Brazil
Brazil

Biographical Data

Feasibility Studies, Project, Supervision and Control of roads, highways, bridges, viaducts, railway studies, road lighting projects, cybernetic organization of railways, transport studies. On the Estrada de Ferro Central in Brazil, EFCB was in charge of supervising the Central Serra de Mar installation. Member of the Commission for the Study of the Hydroelectric Development of the Paraibo River 1956-68 — Supervisor of Geotechnical Services (58) Head of Studies and Projects (62). Construction equipment of the Mato Grosso Highway Department · Supervision of the Vitoria-Divisa Highway. Feasibility Study of the Barra de S. Francisco-Ecoporanga highway. Executive project of the BR70 highway — State of Goiás — Federal District. Project for the electrification of substations, signalling and communications for the Ferrostrada Dona Tereza Cristina 1974-75. Technical Supervision and Control of the Rio Marinho viaduct accessing the City of Vitoria.

At the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro — Escola de Engenharia EEUFRJ, he has been Professor of Roads and Railways, Senior Professor of Roads and Transportation. Head of the Department of Transportation. Professor of the Department of Transportation for Postgraduate Courses in Urban Systems Engineering at the Brazilian Institute of Municipal Administration BAM. Professor of Transportation and Roads at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo.

Publications in several specialized journals, on “Railway Economics”, “Global Transport Policy”. Also about: Hydroelectric Power Plants, Thermoelectric Power Plants, Railroad Electrification, Cybernetical Organization of Railways, Urban Transportation, etc.

President of the Brazilian Geographic Society SBG. Member of the EFCB Engineers Association of the Central Railroad of Brazil — Former President. A3P Association - Former President. Association of Hydroelectric Engineers of the Paraíba Valley CHEVAP.

Railway Merit Medal. Medal and Master's Diploma in Brazil of the Order of the Five Stars. Diplomas of Recognition from the Lisbon Geographic Society and the Transport Colloquium, Lisbon, Portugal.

Education

Civil Engineer, National School of Engineering ENE — University of Brazil, 1949.

Electrical Engineer, 1949.

Road and Railway Engineer, 1954.

Doctor in Physical and Mathematical Sciences — ENE University of Brazil.

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wipalma@terra.com.br

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