From simulation to engineering solutions
Experience at EMBRAER, research at the University of Toronto and teaching at Universidade de São Paulo, connecting analysis, design and real engineering challenges.
2022–2025
Colombia, Brazil and Canada
Optimization and computational analysis
Aircraft emphasis · 2022
Pedro David Bravo Mosquera is an aeronautical engineer with a master’s degree and doctorate in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on Aircraft from Universidade de São Paulo. His career connects research, product development and teaching across Colombia, Brazil and Canada. His work addresses computational aerodynamics, multidisciplinary optimization and aircraft design, where engineering decisions involve interacting variables and performance constraints.
Since November 2025, he has served as Assistant Professor at the São Carlos School of Engineering, Universidade de São Paulo. He teaches Aircraft Propulsion, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Experimental Aerodynamics. He also supervises undergraduate and graduate research and coordinates research and development projects with industry partners.
From November 2022 to November 2025, he worked as Product Development Engineer at EMBRAER. His responsibilities covered multidisciplinary design optimization, computational aerodynamics, aircraft design and performance analysis, propulsion systems engineering, and advanced aerospace technology research. This experience connects analytical methods with industrial aircraft product development.
At the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, from January 2021 to January 2022, he conducted research on aerodynamic shape optimization of unconventional aircraft. He developed computational models and simulation methodologies for aircraft design and performance improvement.
His teaching career predates his current appointment. Between 2018 and 2019, he was a lecturer and undergraduate research supervisor at Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores, guiding capstone projects in conceptual design, CFD, optimization, UAVs, stability and aircraft performance.
He also holds a graduate specialization in didactic-pedagogical training for distance learning from UNIVESP. His background brings computational tools, physical principles and design criteria together in the education of professionals who need to analyze systems and compare engineering alternatives.
His experience and perspective on applied learning.
November 2025 – present
Teaches Aircraft Propulsion, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Experimental Aerodynamics. Supervises undergraduate and graduate research, coordinates research and development projects with industry partners, and supports graduate academic activities.
November 2022 – November 2025
Worked on multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), computational aerodynamics, aircraft design and performance analysis, and propulsion systems engineering. His role included research and development of advanced aerospace technologies.
January 2021 – January 2022
Conducted research in aerodynamic shape optimization of unconventional aircraft. Developed computational models and simulation methodologies for aircraft design and performance improvement.
January 2018 – December 2019
Supervised Aeronautical Engineering capstone projects and guided work on conceptual aircraft design, CFD, aerodynamic optimization, UAV design, stability analysis and performance evaluation.
From November 2022 to November 2025, he worked in product development engineering, connecting computational methods and performance analysis.
The field of workAircraft design and aerospace technologies requiring consideration of interactions between aerodynamics, propulsion and performance.
His responsibilityProduct Development Engineer: MDO, computational aerodynamics, design and performance analysis, and propulsion systems engineering.
Learning connectionExamine how engineering alternatives can be compared when changing one part of a system affects the whole.
This experience describes his responsibilities. No specific products, commercial results or undocumented quantitative improvements are attributed to this profile.
Integration of design variables and assessment of alternatives.
Flow models and simulation methodologies.
Research in shape optimization and design.
Propulsion systems and their relationship with design.
Teaching experimental methods for flow analysis.
Supervision of undergraduate and graduate projects.
EESC–USP · 03/2017–10/2022
EESC–USP · 03/2015–03/2017
Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores · 01/2010–01/2015
UNIVESP · 08/2019–08/2020
Coauthored studies on design, propulsion integration and aircraft configurations.
Journal of Aircraft
View publication ↗Physics of Fluids
View publication ↗Designs
View publication ↗Aerospace
View publication ↗The Aeronautical Journal
View publication ↗Progress in Aerospace Sciences
View publication ↗Aerospace Science and Technology
View publication ↗Aerospace Science and Technology
View publication ↗Pedro’s experience connects physical principles, computational tools and questions arising in product development.
A perspective developed across university research and technological development in the aircraft industry.
What must a simulation represent to inform a design decision?
How does a solution change when aerodynamics, propulsion and performance are considered together?
How can configurations be compared without reducing the analysis to one variable?
How can an optimized solution be interpreted alongside its assumptions and constraints?
How can a professional question become a research problem and an analysis methodology?
His experience relates closely to the themes of the program below.
Back to FacultySimulation, analysis and optimization for production systems and operations through applied engineering.
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