Weblab France-Brésil en génie des procédés

A Weblab is an experiment remotely operated via internet. A Weblab between the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of São Paulo Polytechnic School (EPUSP) and the Process Engineering Department of the Ecole Nationale Supérieurs d’Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques (ENSIACET) is developed. The experiment consists of a tank level control. The main objective is to propose and test tunings for the system control loop. For this purpose, the students must work in synergy and propose models for the system in order to find the tuning parameters. Weblab is a showcase for new technologies and original experiences because it allows to perform a control action from anywhere in a supervision environment which is spreading out in the industry. The objectives and interests are mainly pedagogical as the Weblab favours the variety and diversity of intercultural experiences a student could experience during his undergraduate studies. Because of this, the Weblab perfectly integrates in an engineer curriculum that is open to international exchanges. Un WebLab est une installation commandée à distance via internet. Nous développons une expérience de Weblab entre le département de Génie Chimique de l’Ecole Polytechnique de l’Université de São Paulo (EPUSP) et le département Génie des Procédés et Informatique de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieurs d’Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques (ENSIACET). L’expérience consiste en la régulation de niveau dans un bac. L’objectif de l’expérience est de proposer et de valider des réglages pour la boucle de commande du système. Pour cela, les étudiants de l’EPUSP et de l’ENSIACET doivent travailler en synergie et proposer des modélisations et un réglage du contrôleur. Le Weblab constitue une vitrine de technologies innovantes et d’expériences originales, car il permet, depuis n’importe où, d’effectuer une commande à distance dans un environnement de supervision qui est de plus en plus adopté dans l’industrie. Les objectifs et intérêts du WebLab se situent plutôt au niveau pédagogique car il peut être un facteur multiplicatif du nombre d’expériences interculturelles pouvant être vécues par un étudiant tout au long de son cursus. Pour ces raisons le Weblab s’intègre parfaitement dans une formation d’ingénieurs qui se doit d’être ouverte à l’international

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio