Mauricio Chagas, PhD

Mauricio Chagas
Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Teaching Professor
Program Coordinator
Phone
(850) 770-2279
Office Hours

Monday: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Tuesday: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Wednesday: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Dr. Mauricio B. Chagas is a teacher at the Mechanical Engineering department at Florida State University Panama City. He has obtained his undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Maria - Brazil and his master’s and doctorate at Florida State University.

Dr. Chagas' research is focused on computational simulation of thermal systems. In particular, the thermal management and optimization of systems that contain multiple thermal sources and cooling media. His main research was applied to systems that are present in the next generation of navy ships, all-electric ships. Sustainable energy topics are also the interest of Dr. Chagas, such as renewable energy and power conversion.