The Graduate Program in Engineering (PPEng) was created in October 2010, when the proposal for the creation of the Program was approved by CAPES, in the area of Engineering III, as an Academic Master’s. The first class of the program started in August 2011 and, until January 2021, PPEng graduated 90 students. In 2020, the program underwent a major reform, and in 2021, PPEng had its request for a change of basic area approved by CAPES, moving to the basic area of Engineering I.
The research conducted in the program is mainly aimed at meeting regional demands in solving problems in the area of materials technology and the environment within the context of Engineering I. PPEng has a concentration area, Technology of Materials and Environment, to which the three research lines of the program are linked: Materials and Structures; Modeling and Simulation; New materials and their technological applications (more information here).
With these research fields, through courses and research, the student will have the opportunity to explore problems such as: behavior of structures, search to develop techniques and recommendations for design and execution with a focus on innovation, interaction of the environment with structural systems, production of graphene and its possible applications, manufacturing of ceramic materials, thermal comfort, urban heat islands, air quality, fluid-structure interaction, generation of renewable energy, computational fluid dynamics, computational thermodynamics, computational electromagnetism, and computational solid mechanics, among others.
The target audience of the program are professionals and graduates in the areas of Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, as well as related fields. The training of human resources in PPEng is aimed at applying scientific methods into problem solving and with a broad understanding of the research, development and innovation process. Thus, the holder of the Master’s degree in Engineering will be able to lead studies, develop and propose methods, techniques and tools that allow implementing solutions in various areas of interest in Engineering, mainly in Civil Engineering and environmental preservation.