Ricardo Jorge Guedes da Silva Nunes da Costa

Department of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto - Portugal

Office F452: Phone +351 228340500 (ext: 1142)
CIETI/LABORIS research center: Phones +351 228340532 or +351 228340500 (ext:1775)
Email: rjc at isep.ipp.pt / ricardo.jgsn.costa at gmail.com

❊ Academic Education
❊ Professional Activity ☞[Current] ☞[Past]
❊ Research ☞[Current interests] ☞[Projects]
❊ Publications ☞[Thesis] ☞ [Chapter books] ☞ [Journals] ☞[Conference papers] ☞[Other publications] ☞[Other documents]
❊ Reviewing activities
❊ Other activities

Academic Education☝

PhD. in Information Science and Technology. Thesis entitled "An IEEE1451.0-compliant FPGA-based reconfigurable weblab", at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology - University of Coimbra (FCTUC), 2014.
MSc. in Science Computer Engineering [pre-Bologna], specialization in Industrial Informatics. Thesis entitled "Laboratorial Infrastructure for Remote Experimentations", at the School of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), 2003.
Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering [pre-Bologna], specialization in Automation, Control and Instrumentation (ACI), at the School of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), 1999.
Bachelor in Electrical Engineering [3 years], specialization in Industrial Electronics, at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto - School of Engineering (ISEP), 1996.
Professional Degree in Electronics, at the Gaia School (colégio de Gaia), 1993.

Professional Activity☝

Current☝

Professor at the Polytechnic of Porto - School of Engineering (ISEP) at the Electrical Department (DEE).
Researcher at the research center named CIETI/LABORIS, included into ISEP.

Past☝

Researcher at the research center named CISUC, included into the Faculty of Sciences and Technology - University of Coimbra (FCTUC).
Institute Agilus for Innovation in Information Technologies (IAITI). Developer and software adviser for VB.NET applications for the European project named Lifelinger.
School of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). Researcher of the European project named PEARL (“Practical Experimentation by Accessible Remote Learning”).
EFACEC - Automation and Robotics. Project Engineer with main activity in automation area, namely: automatic warehouses and layout specifications for Automatic Guide Vehicles - AGVs, etc..
Technological Center for Metal Industry (CATIM). Engineer with activity related to the test of industrial machines based on standards and directives.
Professional School - External Commerce School (EPCE). Mathematics lecturer. Lessons programme similar to the 12th grade.

Research☝

Current interests☝

Remote Laboratories; IEEE1451.0 Std.; FPGA technology.

Projects☝

Oct. 2017 to Oct. 2020. PILAR - Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of VISIR. European Commission, ERASMUS + program, agreement 2016-1-ES01-KA203-025327.
Oct. 2015 to Oct. 2017. VISIR + - Educational Modules for Electric and Electronics Circuit Theory and Practice Following an Enquiry-based Learning and Teaching Methodology Supported by VISIR. European Commission, ERASMUS + program, agreement 561735-EPP-1-2015-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP. Comissão Europeia, Agência para o Audiovisual, Desporto e Cultura, programa Erasmus+, contrato 561735-EPP-1-2015-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP.
June 2000 to Feb.2003. European project entitled PEARL ("Practical Experimentation by Accessible Remote Learning"). School of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). The project was financed by the European Community (EC). Consortium composed by FEUP, Open University (UK), Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), University of Dundee (Scotland) and a company named Zenon (Greece).
Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2007. Project entitled MORExperimentation ("Mobile Remote Experimentation"). Cooperation programme between the research laboratory LABORIS and the Heriot-Watt University from Edinburgh.
Oct.r 2004 to Dec. 2006. European project entitled RexNet ("Remote Experimentation Network") with the Laboratório de Investigação em Sistemas (LABORIS/ISEP).
May 2006. Preparatory visit to the Heriot-Watt University – Edinburgh – supported by the Socrates programme. During this visit, made in May 2006, two presentations were carried out: the first one about the main aspects of the remote experimentation concept and second one about an infrastructure able to remotely control a transducer named LVDT.

Publications☝

Chapter books☝(note: only first pages are provided)

	Book entitled "Contributions to Higher Engineering Education", Gustavo R. Alves, ..., Ricardo J. Costa, (2017). "*International Cooperation for Remote Lab use*". In: Higher Engineering Education. Maria M. Nascimento, Gustavo R. Alves, and Eva A. Morais (Eds.). Springer, ISBN , Chapter 1, pp. 1-33. In press. ISBN 978-981-10-8916-9 ISBN 978-981-10-8917-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8917-6
	Book entitled "Online Experimentation: Emerging Technologies and IoT", ISBN: 978-84-608-5977-2; e-ISBN: 978-84-608-6128-7 BN: 20151230-XX BIC: JNV. Maria Teresa Restivo, Alberto Cardoso and António Mendes Lopes (Ed.), International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA) Publishing, S. L., 30 December 2015, 496 pp. (You can buy this book at the International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA)). Contribution with the chapter 19th entitled "*The Use of Embedded Smart Modules for Designing Standard-based and Reconfigurable Weblabs*", p. 349-365.

Book entitled "Contributions to Higher Engineering Education", Gustavo R. Alves, ..., Ricardo J. Costa, (2017). "International Cooperation for Remote Lab use". In: Higher Engineering Education. Maria M. Nascimento, Gustavo R. Alves, and Eva A. Morais (Eds.). Springer, ISBN , Chapter 1, pp. 1-33. In press. ISBN 978-981-10-8916-9 ISBN 978-981-10-8917-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8917-6

Book entitled "Online Experimentation: Emerging Technologies and IoT", ISBN: 978-84-608-5977-2; e-ISBN: 978-84-608-6128-7 BN: 20151230-XX BIC: JNV. Maria Teresa Restivo, Alberto Cardoso and António Mendes Lopes (Ed.), International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA) Publishing, S. L., 30 December 2015, 496 pp.
(You can buy this book at the International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA)).
Contribution with the chapter 19th entitled "The Use of Embedded Smart Modules for Designing Standard-based and Reconfigurable Weblabs", p. 349-365.

Thesis☝(note: only first pages are provided)

	PhD. thesis entitled "An IEEE1451.0-compliant FPGA-based reconfigurable weblab" developed at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology at the University of Coimbra (FCTUC), January 2014, 324 pp. (Book format available at the Lambert Academic Publishing [cover])		MSc. thesis entitled "Laboratorial Infrastructure for Remote Experimentations" developed at the School of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), June 2003, 245 pp. [in Portuguese].

Journals☝(note: only first pages are provided)

Ricardo JGSN Costa, P. Portela, G. R. Alves, M. C. Felgueiras and C. Viegas, " An Alternative Way of Teaching Operational Amplifiers Using a Reconfigurable and Expandable Kit " n IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 307-317, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/RITA.2021.3125893.
Ricardo JGSN Costa, Gustavo RC Alves and Mário Zenha-Rela "Embedding Instruments & Modules into an IEEE1451-FPGA-based Weblab Infrastructure" Vol. 8, No. 3 (2012) of International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE). ISSN: 1861-2121, August 2012.
Ricardo JGSN Costa, Gustavo RC Alves and Mário Zenha-Rela "Work-in-progress on a thin IEEE1451.0-architecture to implement reconfigurable weblab infrastructures" Vol. 7, No. 3 (2011) of International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE). ISSN: 1861-2121, November 2011 (already published in the REV'201 was invited for republication).
Ricardo JGSN Costa, Gustavo RC Alves and Mário Zenha-Rela "Reconfigurable Weblabs Based on the IEEE1451 Std." Vol. 6, No. 3 (2010) of International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE). ISSN: 1861-2121, August 2010 (already published in the EDUCON'2010 was invited for republication).
Ricardo Costa, Gustavo Alves and Domingos Santos "A Smart Layer for Remote Laboratories" Vol. 3, No. 3 (2007) of International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE). ISSN: 1861-2121, July 2007.
Ricardo Costa and Gustavo Alves "Experimenting through the Web a Linear Variable Differential Transformer" Vol 2, No. 2 (2006) of International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE). ISSN: 1861-2121, May 2006.

Conference papers☝(note: only first pages are provided)

Clara Viegas, ... and Ricardo Costa, "How may teaching contribute to sustainability in a small scale but with wide use?", TEEM'21: Ninth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM'21), October 2021, Pages 794–799, doi: 10.1109/TAEE46915.2020.9163688 [call].
Ricardo Costa, Paulo Bastos, Gustavo Alves, Carlos Felgueiras and André Fidalgo, "A remote laboratory to support electrical engineering education - A signal conditioning circuit with the LDR sensor", 2020 XIV Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching Conference (TAEE), Porto, Portugal, 08-10 july, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TAEE46915.2020.9163688 [call] [presentation].
Ricardo Costa, Francisco Pérola and Carlos Felgueiras, "µLAB A remote laboratory to teach and learn the ATMega328p µC", 11th Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Porto, Portugal, 27-30 April, 2020 [call][presentation].
Carlos Felgueiras, ... and Ricardo Costa, "A demo platform to teach and learn the behaviour of a PI controller", 11th Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Porto, Portugal, 27-30 April, 2020 [call].
Carlos Felgueiras, Ricardo Costa, et al., "A sustainable approach to laboratory experimentation",Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality 2019 (TEEM'19), León, Spain, 16-18 October, 2019 [call][presentation].
Nuno Escudeiro, ...., Ricardo Costa, et al., "Low-cost Industry 4.0: learning Arduino programming in three distinct ways", and poster, Conference on Academic Success in Higher Education (CASHE'19), ISEP, Porto, Portugal, 14-15 february, 2019 [call].
Ricardo Costa, et al., "A reconfigurable and expandable kit to teach electronic circuits based on Operational Amplifiers", Congreso TAEE (Tecnología, Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de la Electrónica), San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, june 20-22, 2018 [call].
Manuel Carlos Felgueiras, Ricardo Costa, Andre Fidalgo and Gustavo Alves," Transistor teaching back to Transfer-Resistor: A summary table of definitions and students´ perceptions", Congreso TAEE (Tecnología, Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de la Electrónica), San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, june 20-22, 2018 [call].
G. Alves,..., Ricardo Costa, et al., "Using a 3-Tier Training Model for Effective Exchange of Good Practices in na Erasmus+ Project", INTED 2018 (2th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference), Valencia, Spain, March 5-7, 2018 [call].
Gustavo Alves,..., Ricardo Costa, et al., "International Cooperation for Remote Lab use" , International Cooperation for Remote Lab use, In: Higher Engineering Education. Maria M. Nascimento, Gustavo R. Alves, and Eva A. Morais (Eds.). Springer, ISBN , Chapter 1, pp. 7-38, 2018.
Natércia Lima,..., Ricardo Costa, et al., "Do Students Really Understand the Difference Between Simulation and Remote Labs?", Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality 2017 (TEEM'17), Cadiz, Spain, October 18-20, 2017 [call].
Natércia Lima,..., Ricardo Costa, et al., "Projeto VISIR+ Contextualização da Matemática em Engenharia" , 1. Congreso Latino-americano de Ingeniería (CLADI 2017), Paraná / Oro Verde - Entre Ríos, Argentina, 13-15 septiembre 2017 [call].
Marcelo Zannin,..., Ricardo Costa, et al., "The use of remote labs to contextualize learning and teaching in engineering mathematics" , 9th Annual SALT Learning and Teaching Conference (SUSALT17), Swansea, UK, 5th July 2017 [call].
Natércia Lima,..., Ricardo Costa, et al., "The VISIR+ Project - Helping Contextualize Math in an Engineering Course", 4th Experiment@ International conference (exp.at´17), Faro, Portugal, 5-9 June 2017 [call].
Gustavo Alves,..., Ricardo Costa, et al., "VISIR+ Project - Preliminary results of the training actions" , Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV) Conference (REV´17), New York, NY, USA, 15-17 March 2017 [call].
C. Felgueiras, A. Fidalgo, Ricardo Costa, G. Alves, C. Pertry and L. Schlichting, "A demonstration circuit to support (e-)learning on control systems engineering", The Experiment@ International Conference 2017 (exp.at´17), Universidade do Algarve (UAlg), Faro-Portugal, 6-8 Jun, 2017 [call].
Ricardo Costa, Paulo Portela and Gustavo R. Alves, "An educational kit to teach and learn Operational Amplifiers", The Experiment@ International Conference 2017 (exp.at´17), Universidade do Algarve (UAlg), Faro-Portugal, 6-8 Jun, 2017 [call].
Gustavo R. Alves,..., Ricardo Costa, et al. "Spreading remote lab usage A System - A Community - A Federation", 2nd International Conference (CISPEE 2016), Universidade Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real-Portugal, 20-21 October, 2016 [call] (winner of the best paper).
Ricardo Costa, Samuel Fernandes, Joni Jorge and Gustavo R. Alves "A customizable platform for remotely teaching & learning LVDTs - The relevance of using the IEEE1451.0 Std. to facilitate its design and access -", 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV´16), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid-Spain, 24-26 February, 2016 [presentation] [call].
Ricardo Costa, Diogo Eloi Pinho and Gustavo R. Alves "Using embedded instruments to design weblabs - An FPGA-embedded oscilloscope based on the IEEE1451.0 Std.-", 3rd Experiment@ International Conference (exp.at´15), Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores-Portugal, 2-4 June, 2015 [presentation] [call].
Ricardo Costa, Diogo Eloi Pinho, Gustavo R. Alves and Mário Zenha-Rela, "An FPGA-embedded oscilloscope based on the IEEE1451.0 Std.", 10th Portuguese Meeting on Reconfigurable Systems, Polytechnic Institute of Porto - School of Engineering (ISEP), Portugal, 5-6 February, 2015 [presentation] [call].
Ricardo Costa , Gustavo R. Alves and Mário Zenha-Rela, "A demo prototype of a reconfigurable IEEE1451.0-compliant and FPGA-based weblab", Demonstration at the International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV´14), Polytechnic of Porto - School of Engineering, Porto, Portugal, 26-28 February, 2014 [call].
Ricardo Costa , Gustavo R. Alves, Mário Zenha-Rela, Danilo Garbi Zutin, Johan Zackrisson, Willian Rochadel and Unai Hernández-Jayo, "Peers' evaluation of a reconfigurable IEEE1451.0-compliant and FPGA-based weblab", 2nd Experiment@ International Conference (exp.at´13), University of Coimbra, Coimbra-Portugal, 18-20 September, 2013 [call] [presentation].
Ricardo Costa , Gustavo Alves, Mário Zenha-Rela "Using FPGAs to create a reconfigurable IEEE1451.0-compliant weblab infrastructure" 9th Portuguese Meeting on Reconfigurable Systems, Institute of Systems and Robotics - University of Coimbra, Portugal, 7-8 February, 2013 [call] [presentation].
Ricardo Costa , Gustavo Alves, Mário Zenha-Rela "Reconfigurable IEEE1451-FPGA based weblab infrastructure" International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV´12), Bilbao, Spain, 3-6 July, 2012 [call] [presentation].
Ricardo Costa , Gustavo Alves, Mário Zenha-Rela "Extending the IEEE1451.0 Std. to serve distributed weblab architectures" 1st Experiment@ International Conference (exp.at´11), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa-Portugal, 17-18 November, 2011 [call] [presentation].
I. Gustavsson, G. Alves, R. Costa , K. Nilsson, J. Zackrisson, U. Hernandez-Jayo, and J. Garcia-Zubia "The VISIR Open Lab Platform 5.0 - an architecture for a federation of remote laboratories" International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV´11), Transylvania University of Brasov , Romania, 28 June - 1 July, 2011 [call].
Ricardo Costa, Gustavo Alves, Mário Zenha-Rela "Work-in-progress on a thin IEEE1451.0-architecture to implement reconfigurable weblab infrastructures" International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV´11), Transylvania University of Brasov , Romania, 28 June - 1 July, 2011 [call] [presentation].
Ricardo Costa, Gustavo Alves, Mário Zenha-Rela and Licínio Roque "Contextual Analysis of Remote Experimentation Using the Actor-Network Theory" 9th European Conference on e-Learning - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto - Portugal, 4-5 November, 2010 [call] [presentation].
Ricardo Costa, Gustavo Alves and Mário Zenha-Rela "Reconfigurable weblabs based on the IEEE1451 Std." 1st IEEE Engineering Education 2010 - The Future of Global Learning in Engineering Education (EDUCON'2010), Madrid - Spain, 14-16 April, 2010 [call] [presentation].
Ricardo Costa, Gustavo Alves, Mário Zenha-Rela, Rob Poley and Campbell Wishart "FPGA-based Weblab Infrastructures Guidelines and a prototype implementation example" 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Learning in Industrial Electronics (ICELIE'2009), Porto - Portugal, 3-7 November, 2009 [call] [presentation].
Ricardo Costa, Gustavo Alves and Domingos Santos "Adopting Building Automation In Weblabs - Analysis Of Requirements And Solutions" International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST'08), Funchal/Madeira - Portugal, 4-7 May, 2008 [call] [poster].
Ricardo J. Costa, Gustavo R. Alves and Domingos S. Santos "A Smart Layer for Remote Laboratories" International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV’07), Universidade do Porto (FEUP), Portugal, 25-27 June, 2007 [call] [poster].
Ricardo Costa and Gustavo Alves "Remote and Mobile Experimentation: Pushing the Boundaries of an Ubiquitous Learning Place" 9th IFAC Symposium on Automated Systems Based on Human Skill And Knowledge (ASBoHS’06), France-Nancy, 22-24 May, 2006 [call] [presentation].
Ricardo Costa and Gustavo Alves "Mobile Experimentation: Closing an Educational Gap for New Student Generations?" European Conference on the Use of Modern Information and Communication Technologies (ECUMICT’06), Belgium-Gent, 30-31 March, 2006 [call] [presentation].
J. M. Martins Ferreira, Ricardo Costa and Gustavo R. C. Alves "Web-Access to practical experiments in science and engineering - lessons from the pearl project" The 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI, 2003), 27-30 July, 2003 (accepted but not published).
J. M. Martins Ferreira, Gustavo R. C. Alves, Ricardo Costa and Nick Hine "Collaborative Learning in a Web-accessible Workbench" Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG'02), La Serena (Chile), 1-4 September, 2002.
J. M. Martins Ferreira, Ricardo J. Costa, Gustavo R. Alves and Martyn Cooper "The PEARL Digital Electronics Lab: Full Access to the Workbench via the Web" Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Innovations in Education - European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE'02), York (England), 8-10 April, 2002.
André V. Fidalgo, Ricardo J. Costa, Gustavo R. Alves and José M. Ferreira "Experimenting the 1149.1 and 1149.4 test infrastructures in a Web-accessible remote Lab (without Plug-ins!)" Proceedings of the Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems conference (DCIS’01), Porto (Portugal), 20-23 November, 2001, pp. 440-444.
Gustavo R. Alves, Ricardo J. Costa, André V. Fidalgo and José M. Ferreira "Infra-estrutura Laboratorial para teste digital remoto em ambientes de ensino distribuído" Jornadas científicas do ISEP (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto), Porto 2001 [in Portuguese].

Other publications☝(note: only first pages are provided)

Ricardo Costa "Tele-Experimentação Móvel (Mobile Remote Experimentation) - Considerações sobre uma área emergente no ensino à distância - Newsletter da Actividade Científica no ISEP, July, 2005.

Reviewing activities☝

Participation in the Technical Program Committee (member list) of the Seventh International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services, (CENTRIC 2014), October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France.
Participation in the Technical Program Committee (certificate) of the Mediterranean Conference on Information & Communication Technologies (MedICT 2015), May 7 - 9, 2015, Saïdia, Morocco.
Reviewer and member of the Organizing and scientific committees on the 3rd conference named TEEM'15 - International conference in technological ecosystems for enhancing multiculturality - (certificate scientific committee) (certificate organizing committee).
Reviewer and member of the Organizing and scientific committees on the 3rd conference named The 4th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER 2017) - (certificate scientific committee) (certificate organizing committee) held at the ISEP (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal), in Porto, Portugal, July 17-20, 2017
TO BE COMPLETED.....

Other activities☝

Member of the Organizing Committee of the The 4th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER 2017) [page], at ISEP (Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal), in Porto, Portugal, July 17-20, 2017( the 3rd week of July, Monday to Thursday). [Reviewer][Session Chair]
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality - TEEM'2015, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, October 12 - 16, 2015, Porto -Portugal.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation - REV 2014, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, 26 - 28 February 2014, Porto, Portugal.
TO BE COMPLETED.....