Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (PPGEELT)
History
In 1983, under the leadership of Prof. José Carlos de Oliveira, the National Center for Electric Power Quality (CNQEE) was established at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). In the same year, facing the challenges of proposing and offering the first specialization course in Electrical Engineering in the region—designed to meet local demands—the School of Electrical Engineering at UFU took its first steps toward providing society with a response consistent with its human and technical capacities. The success achieved was inspiring, and more ambitious initiatives were subsequently undertaken by the faculty. Confident in the consolidation of the undergraduate program in Electrical Engineering, activities for planning and implementing a master’s program began in 1984. In 1985, the newly established Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (PPGEELT) offered UFU’s first master’s course, and in 1994, it launched UFU’s first doctoral program. In 1998, the first doctoral thesis in Electrical Engineering in the state of Minas Gerais was defended within the program, authored by Prof. Adriano Alves Pereira, under the supervision of professors João Batista Vieira Junior and Luiz Carlos de Freitas, co-founders (in 1991) of the Power Electronics Research Center (NUPEP). The continuous evolution of the program and its faculty has been ensured by combining the knowledge and experience of senior members with the enthusiasm and ambition of younger researchers who have joined the team over the years. As a result, the program’s task force is highly diverse, encompassing a wide range of expertise in Electrical Engineering, Control and Automation Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.
Objective
To contribute to Brazil’s scientific, technological, and social development through the execution of high-level research projects in partnership with national and international academic and research institutions, as well as companies operating in the electric power sector and in the oil, natural gas, and energy industries.
Mission
To provide advanced training for professionals with higher education degrees, enabling them to conduct applied and/or fundamental research, and to qualify faculty members for teaching and academic leadership in higher education in engineering.
Infrastructure
All research groups and faculty members that make up the program’s task force have access to state-of-the-art equipment necessary for developing both theoretical and practical studies. These facilities support prototype construction and performance, efficiency, and compliance testing.
To learn more about the laboratories associated with the program’s research groups, visit:
http://www.ppgeelt.feelt.ufu.br/laboratorios-de-pesquisa
The program has its own physical facilities for administrative activities (office and coordination), as well as two lecture rooms (amphitheaters) equipped with multimedia projectors and seating for 30 students each. A third amphitheater, equipped with a multimedia projector, computer, and videoconferencing system, with a capacity of 97 people, is used exclusively for lectures, events, and thesis defenses. The program’s classrooms host the courses of the graduate curriculum. Both the administrative offices and the academic facilities are fully computerized and provide direct Internet access, including wireless connectivity.