Aldo da Rosa

Aldo Weber Vieira da Rosa (November 15, 1917 – June 8, 2015) was a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University.

He had the opportunity to attend Stanford University while in California; despite not having an undergraduate degree, his technical experience enabled him to be admitted into the electrical engineering graduate program.

[4] For the next twenty years, da Rosa was active in the nascent aerospace industry in Brazil, while still attached to the Brazilian Air Force.

Between 1945 and 1951, he served as the first head of the research and standardization division of the Department of Airspace Control's Air Routes Directorate.

In 1952 and 1953, he was associate professor of electronics in the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica's engineering faculty in São José dos Campos.

In 1980, he became a professor of electrical engineering,[4] lecturing on topics of renewable energy with an emphasis on classical physics.