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9 AutoData | March 2019 “I do not see conflict or competition regarding the AEA with the SAE and the IQA. I think it’s important that the professionals have access to varied opinions from different associations.” “We can’t say that Anfavea, AEA, Sindipeças and the government will find a solution to keep 100% of the engineers working on our market.” along, and now the car future points to electricity. What I mean is that it is very difficult to predict the profession of the future, but it is clear that the automotive engineer needs to change to a mobili- ty engineer. The world is no longer just the car, the product, it is mobility, there is the product but also the service, the infrastructure. We have to change focus, it’s no longer just making a product, a car, an engine, a dashboard, theworld is not just that and neither is engineering. They are not quite distant.Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to imagine that China’s costwill increasemore than Brazil’s cost will decrease? When I say that we have to be competiti- ve I don’t mean that we should mass-in- crease the engineering, as it happened in India and China. We have to search for some areas where we have higher conditions to compete: the objective is to identify themand invest in that specific formation. Ethanol, for example, is impor- tant, we can’t let it die just because the world is investing in the electric vehicles. What is the future of the automotive engineer in Brazil in terms of education? Many people today don’twant to pursue that career anymore. Let’s take my own example: I wanted to be a physicist, but thinking about career I chose electrical engineering, specializing in electronics and telecommunications. At first it was a segment that had nothing to do with the automotive one, but over the years the connectivity has entered the automotive industry and I came