Helena Amélia Oehler Stemmer

Helena Amélia Oehler Stemmer (11 November 1927 – 28 March 2016) was a Brazilian civil engineer and university professor.[1] On 15 May 1955, Helena Amélia Oehler married her university colleague Caspar Erich Stemmer and soon got a job at the company Azevedo Bastian Castilhos S / A Construções.[3][4] When her husband Caspar, then dean of Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) made a study exchange trip to the Technical University of North Rhine-Westphalia in Aachen (RWTH Aachen) in Germany, Helena Stemmer attended structural analysis classes in German at the university.Stemmer started teaching at UFSC in 1969, a year after the foundation of the civil engineering course, becoming the first teacher in the discipline of construction stability at the university.[5] She dedicated herself to teaching for almost three decades until her retirement in June 1992, and co-authored the book Memórias da Engenharia Civil.
Porto AlegreFlorianópolisBrazilianUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulCivil EngineerUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaTechnical University of North Rhine-WestphaliaAachenGermanystructural analysis