**Meet the editors**

Chemical Engineer from Engineering School of Lorena - São Paulo University (EEL/USP/Brazil), Expert in Design of Experiments from Sloan School of Management (Cambridge) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT/USA), MBA in Production Management from Faculty Engineering at Guaratinguetá - São Paulo State University (FEG/UNESP/Brazil), Master in Engineering

from FEG/UNESP and PhD student in Engineering at FEG/UNESP. Was Supervisor at PETROBRAS, where has worked since 2006, was a Professor at Petrobras University and Instructor in the company Statsoft South America. Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Engineering Business Management, International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering and Journal of Applied Management Sciences and Engineering.

Black Belt Lean Six Sigma, Chemical Engineer from Engineering School of Lorena - São Paulo University (EEL/USP/Brazil) and Mathematician from Franca University (UNIFRAN/Brazil), Master in Science from EEL/USP, PhD student in Engineering at FEG/UNESP). Worked at Nexans Brazil S/A in the areas of Quality and Environmental Engineering. Researcher in Design of

Experiments and Optimization Methods with emphasis on catalytic and biocatalytic processes.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Multivariate Analysis in Management 1** 

Chapter 1 **Contributions of Multivariate Statistics in Oil and Gas Industry 3** 

and Messias Borges Silva

K. Böhm, E. Smidt and J. Tintner

Chapter 3 **Technology and Society Public Perception:** 

**Section 2 Multivariate Analysis in Engineering 61** 

Chapter 5 **Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant Structural** 

Chapter 2 **Application of Multivariate** 

Leandro Valim de Freitas, Ana Paula Barbosa Rodrigues de Freitas, Fernando Augusto Silva Marins, Estéfano Vizconde Veraszto,

José Tarcísio Franco de Camargo, J. Paulo Davim

**Data Analyses in Waste Management 15** 

**A Structural Equation Modeling Study of the Brazilian Undergraduate Students'** 

Dirceu da Silva and Leandro Valim de Freitas

Chapter 4 **Multivariate Analysis in Advanced Oxidation Process 63** 

**Geotechnical Instrumentation Temporal Data Under** 

Carla Cristina Almeida Loures, Fatima Salman, Hilton Túlio Lima dos Santos and Messias Borges Silva

**the Application of Multivariate Analysis – Grouping and Ranking Techniques 81**  Rosangela Villwock, Maria Teresinha Arns Steiner, Andrea Sell Dyminski and Anselmo Chaves Neto

Ana Paula Barbosa Rodrigues de Freitas, Leandro Valim de Freitas, Gisella Lamas Samanamud, Fernando Augusto Silva Marins,

**Opinions and Attitudes from Sao Paulo State 39**  Estéfano Vizconde Veraszto, José Tarcísio Franco de Camargo,
