Claudio Wolter

Ph.D. Candidate (A.B.D.), Program in Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Technological Change
Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Institute of Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
Office: Porter Hall 126B
Phone: (412) 268-5607
E-mail: cwolter”AT”cmu.edu

Education

 

M.Sc., Engineering and Public Policy - May 2005

          Institution: Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.

          Advisor: Prof. Francisco Veloso, Ph.D.

 

        M.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, concentration area: Solid Mechanics - September 2001

          Institution: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil

          Dissertation title: An introduction to model reduction through the Karhunen-Loève expansion (in Portuguese)

          Committee members:

                   President: Prof. Rubens Sampaio, Ph.D. (Mathematics), Carnegie Mellon University

                                  Prof. Marco Antônio Grivet Mattoso Maia, Ph.D. (Cybernetics), University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

                                  Prof. Fernando Alves Rochinha, D.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), PUC-Rio

                                  Prof. Marcelo Areias Trindade, Docteur (Structural Mechanics and Coupled Systems), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France

 

          M.B.A., Corporate Finances – December 2001

          Institution: Institute of Business Administration and Management (IAG), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

          Engineer’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering – December 1998

          Institution: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) , Brazil

          Senior project: On nonlinear ordinary differential equations (in Portuguese)

          Advisor: Prof. Rubens Sampaio, Ph.D.

 

Dissertation committee


Prof. Francisco Veloso (Chair), Department of Engineering and Public Policy

Prof. Ashish Arora, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

Prof. David A. Hounshell, Department of History, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Department of Engineering and Public Policy

Prof. Robert A. Lowe, Department of Social and Decision Sciences

 

Recent publications

         

Journals

Wolter, C., Veloso, F.M. The effects of innovation on vertical structure: perspectives on transaction costs and competences. Forthcoming in the Acedemy of Management Review [PDF 186kB]

          Under review

Wolter, C., Veloso, F.M. and Steinemann, P.P. Technological diversification and economic performance: a within industry perspective

          Working papers

Wolter, C., Veloso, F.M. The effects of innovation on vertical structure: a conceptual computational model

 

Current research interests

  • Science and technology policy
  • Economics and history of technological change
  • Innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Firm boundaries, innovation and performance
  • Computational models of industry evolution
  • Empirical research methods

 

Previous research interests

  • Karhunen-Loève expansion
  • Structural dynamics and vibrations
  • Model reduction
  • Drillstring dynamics
  • Active vibration control

 

Coursework at Carnegie Mellon

 

  • Economics of Technological Change

Instructor: Ashish Arora

  • Ph.D. Microeconomics

Instructor: Lowell J. Taylor

  • Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis

Instructor: M. Granger Morgan

  • Dynamic Modeling of Firm Decision Making

Instructor: Peter Thompson

  • Introduction to Econometric Theory

Instructor: Jeff Dominitz

  • The Rise of Industrial Research and Development

Instructor: David A. Hounshell

  • Economics of Entrepreneurship

Instructor: Robert A. Lowe

  • Econometric Theory and Methods

Instructor: Jeff Dominitz

  • Workshop in Applied Policy Analysis

Instructor: M. Granger Morgan

  • Industrial Dynamics and Technological Change

Instructor: Steven Klepper

  • Seminar in Strategy

Instructor: Margaret Kyle

  • Seminar in Organizational Theory I & II

Instructor: Linda Argote, William J. McEvily Jr.

  • Industrial Organization Theory (at the University of Pittsburgh)

Instructor: Esther Gal-Or

  • Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

Instructor: Francisco Veloso

  • Project Management

Instructor: Baruch Fischhoff and Edward S. Rubin

 

Publications in Mechanical Engineering

 

Journals:

Trindade, M.A., Wolter, C., and Sampaio R. Karhunen-Loève decomposition of coupled axial/bending vibrations of beams subject to impacts. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 279: 1015-1036, 2005. [PDF 1.33MB]

Wolter, C., Trindade, M.A., and Sampaio R. Obtaining mode shapes through the Karhunen-Loève expansion for distributed-parameter linear systems. Shock and Vibration, 9:4-5, pp. 177-192, 2002. [PDF 1.57MB]

          Technical reports:

 

Plácido, J.C.R., Santos, H.M.R., Galeano, Y.D. and Wolter, C. Drillstring vibration analysis and its effects on drillstring integrity, wellbore stability and rate of penetration (in Portuguese). Technical Report PP-02.04.77, Network of Excellence in Well Engineering Technology (RETEP), Leopoldo Américo M. de Mello Research and Development Center (Cenpes), Petrobras S.A., December 1999.

 

Grants and awards

 

  • International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP)

 (Research grant, 2003-2007)

  • Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Capes – Ministry of Education, Brazil

 (Doctoral Fellowship, 2003-2006)

  • State of Rio de Janeiro Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support - FAPERJ – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 (Master’s Honors Fellowship, 2000-2001)

  • Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Capes / German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD

 (Travel grant for exchange program with German universities, January – March, 2001)

  • Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Capes – Ministry of Education, Brazil

 (Master’s Fellowship, 1999-2000)

  • 5th Computational and Applied Mathematics Regional Meeting (V ERMAC)

 (Best Undergraduate Paper Prize, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May, 1998)

  • Brazilian Space Agency - AEB

 (Scientific Initiation Scholarship, 1996-1998)

  • Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio

 (Full-tuition Scholarship, 1994-1998)

 

Work experience

 

        Petrobras S.A. – June 1998 – December 1998

Intern at the Leopoldo Américo M. de Mello Research and Development Center (Cenpes)

-Worked in the Network of Excellence in Well Engineering Technology (RETEP), under the supervision of Dr. João Carlos Ribeiro Plácido, Ph.D. University of Tulsa, and Dr. Hélio Maurício Ribeiro dos Santos, Ph.D. University of Oklahoma

-Evaluated theoretical and computational models, as well as software for the study and suppression of drillstring vibrations

 

Last updated: August 28, 2007

 

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