Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais

Sign showing 100 years of the institution, and announcing the transformation to Technological Federal University (Universidade Tecnológica Federal) soon.

The Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (Portuguese: Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, CEFET-MG) is an education center located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.^[1]

It is a technological institution that offers a broad range of courses in the State of Minas Gerais, in the southeast of Brazil. With approximately 15,000 students, 650 professors and 400 staff members, the institution carries out teaching associated with research and communitarian extension in the secondary and higher education levels.

Campi I, II and VI are located in Amazonas Avenue in Belo Horizonte. The other campi (Decentralized Education Units - UNEDs) located within the state of Minas Gerais, the cities of Leopoldina, Araxá, Divinópolis, Varginha, Timóteo, Nepomuceno, Curvelo and Contagem.^[2][3]

Goals

By fulfilling the challenge of offering the workforce needed by industries, besides the development of new products and technology, CEFET-MG accomplishes its main goals offering technical and technological education, undergraduate and graduate courses, promoting specialization and improvement courses, developing research in both technical and industrial fields, and establishing agreements with both national and international institutions of education as well as enterprises.

A well known educational tradition of almost a hundred years subsides the status of one of the most important centers of excellence in the technological education in Brazil, with great care to guarantee a holistic formation for the students. Therefore, music, choirs, theatrical groups, musical bands, cultural debates, artistic education, music appreciation, several sports teams, research, field exploration, among others, are activities which compose the school curricula, undertaken by our students.

Courses

Secondary level

CEFET-MG offers secondary (high-school) level education at all campi. High-school students at CEFET-MG also graduate with a degree from one of the many professional and technological courses offered by the institution. Students are admitted through admission exams held at the end of each calendar year.

Professional and Technological education

CEFET-MG offers professional and technological courses in three ways:

• Integrated: for students who have not yet graduated high-school and wish to do so at CEFET-MG;
• External: for students currently enrolled at other secondary schools;
• Subsequent: for people who already have a high-school degree.

Students are admitted through admission exams held on a semestrial basis, except for the integrated courses.

The courses (some offered only in certain campi) are:

• Biomedical Equipment
• Chemistry
• Computer Networks
• Computing
• Construction
• Electromechanics
• Electronics
• Electrotechnology
• Environmental Control
• Environmental Studies
• Fashion Design
• Highways
• Hospitality
• Mechanics
• Mechatronics
• Metallurgy
• Mining
• Transit

Undergraduate courses

CEFET-MG's undergraduate courses are offered in most campi, most notably Campus I and Campus II. Students are admitted through ENEM, a nation-wide high-school-level examination which takes place towards the end of each calendar year. Admitted students are then sorted into two groups according to their ENEM score, one starting at the beginning in late February/early March of the following year (1st semester students) and the other in August (2nd semester students).

CEFET-MG offers the following undegraduate courses:

Bachelor's degrees

• Business
• Civil Engineering
• Civil Production Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Control and Automation Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Environmental and Sanitary Engineering
• Industrial Automation Engineering
• Letters
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechatronic Engineering
• Mining Engineering
• Transportation Engineering

Technological degrees

• Pedagogy
• Technical Chemistry

Graduate courses

CEFET-MG offers master's and doctoral degrees as well.

Master's degrees

• Business
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Energy Engineering
• Language Studies
• Materials Engineering
• Technological Education

• Mathematical and Computational Modeling

Doctoral degrees

• Language Studies
• Mathematical and Computational Modeling

Research

CEFET-MG supports around 40 research groups, most of them receiving governmental grants to carry on their research. To fulfill this, CEFET-MG has celebrated cooperation agreements with a meaningful number of high level Brazilian higher education institutions and universities in France, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, among others – Australia, Italy and Spain are in prospection at the moment.

See also

• CEFET

References

1. ↑ International Affairs Office of CEFET-MG Official Page
2. ↑ Unidade do CEFET-MG em Contagem começa a funcionar no primeiro semestre de 2012
3. ↑ CEFET-MG ofertará novos cursos na Unidade de Contagem

External links

• Official page

Coordinates: 10°39′S 52°57′W / 10.650°S 52.950°W / -10.650; -52.950