Goals

Goals

The Graduate Program in Civil Engineering – PPGEC – aims to train Masters and Doctors capable of detecting the relevant needs of Brazilian society and proposing innovative solutions and methods in the areas of Civil and Urban Construction Engineering, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering and Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering. The Program aims to train leading researchers to work both in academic teaching and research activities and in applied research in the industrial and market sectors.

The postgraduate course at the Master’s level aims at mastering and carrying out technical-scientific work in a specific area of ​​knowledge. Under the supervision of the supervisor, the candidate must develop research activities and, in an autonomous way, systematize the acquired knowledge.

The postgraduate course at the Doctorate level aims to fully master and carry out technical-scientific work with creativity and an innovative spirit in a specific area of ​​knowledge. Under the supervision of the supervisor, the candidate must demonstrate the ability to expand the frontiers of knowledge, develop research activities and autonomously systematize the acquired knowledge.

Since its origins, the Program has maintained close links with society. Its professors regularly carry out research and extension activities with government agencies, public and private companies, most of the time with the direct participation of its student body.

Students are offered facilities such as scholarships, assistance with participation in scientific events, as well as a comprehensive laboratory infrastructure and support for scientific research through research and technological cooperation agreements with the public and private sector, universities, research institutes and development agencies, such as CAPES, CNPq, FINEP and FAPESP. In recent years, the Program has been establishing exchange agreements with foreign partner universities, ensuring greater international visibility for the research of its students and teachers.