Contabilidade ambiental em emergia na construção do protótipo fórmula UNIP

Resumo (EN)

The formula SAE competition begun in the United States in the 80's involving undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students. They have the challenge of conceive, design, fabricate and compete with a mini race car, type formula. The Formula UNIP project involves a team composed by twelve students from all semesters of Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering. During one year students build a prototype for the competition. This study aims to carry out an emergy environmental accounting of this Project as well as the evaluation of the information received by the student during the construction, training and racing stages, using Odum's methodology. The emergy evaluation was divided into three steps: assessment of the construction stage (use of laboratories, infrastructure and manpower), assessment of training stage (infrastructure from the São José dos Campos unity) and evaluation of competition (lane race). An accounting of all emergy inputs related to materials, manpower and information conveyed to students and teachers during each step was prepared. The distribution of resources use was assessed and it was observed that the steps under the University responsibility represented 78% of the total project emergy. lt was also observed that the information received by the student who participates in the project Formula UNIP has an important role in his formation, with an increase of 16% of their total workload due to his/her participation in the project. The comparison between the Formula UNIP Project and the other teams that attended the competition was also assessed, as well as the accounting of the total emergy from the Formula SAE Brasil competition in the year 2009.