Agamenon R E Oliveira
Polytechnic School of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography
Agamenon R E Oliveira has his expertise in mechanical engineering, mainly solid mechanics and in the last ten years in History of Mechanics. He is DSc in Mechanical Engineering (1982) as well as DSc in History of Sciences and Technology (2006), both by COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He published 80 papers and one book: History of the work concept- from physics to economics, by Springer (2013). He is member of IFToMM (International Federation for the promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science) and of SBHC (Brazilian Society of History of Sciences). He is also Professor of Mechanics and History of Technology at Polytechnic School of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil