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The Doctoral Degree in Automation and Systems Engineering offers strong background and expertise for conducting research in this area. A solid background is developed through a broad range of graduate courses to be successfully completed by the student, with a requirement of a minimum of 12 credits in course work. The student’s course work should be focused on the specific topic to be pursued in the doctoral research. Therefore, a work plan must be submitted by the student and the supervisor together with the admission application form, and further examined by the admissions committee. The graduate courses are offered for master’s and doctoral students, without distinction, however doctoral students can add one of the following courses: Advanced Topics in Automation and Systems Engineering and Supervised Study in Automation and Systems Engineering.
The research and human-resource development initiatives conducted by the faculty and researchers affiliated to the Graduate Program in Automation and Systems Engineering have received financial support from national and internacional research funding agencies and from companies. Some of these initiatives are reported below.
In recent years, the PGEAS faculty has participated in a number of projects with support from national funding research agencies, including CAPES, CNPq and FINEP. Some projects funded by these agencies are:
- Projects from the Protem Program (ProTem/RNP, ProTem-CC) and PRONEX;
- Diverse projects that received funding from CNPq’s calls for proposal (Universal, CT-Info, CT-Petro);
- Individual and integrated CNPq projects;
- Projects from FINEP/FUNTTEL, FINEP/RNP and the MCT Millennium Institute;
- National cooperation projects (PROCAD-CAPES) and international cooperation projects (CAPES-COFECUB, CAPES-DAAD, CAPES-MECD, CNRS-CNPq).
Some faculty members have obtained funding from international agencies of countries that are members of the European Union (IST Programs), as part of their participation in cooperation projects with academic institutions of these countries. The funding is in the form of capital investment, consumable items, and scholarships.
More details about the recent projects that the faculty is involved with can be obtained directly from the faculty.
Since 2001, the Department of Automation and Systems Engineering coordinates the PRH-34 Program from the Brazilian Agency of Oil, Gas, and Biofuels (ANP). The program is denominated “aciPG – Human Resources in Engineering for Automation, Control and Instrumentation in the Oil and Gas Industry,” which has the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering as partners. This Program has two focus areas: graduate and undergraduate studies. With respect to the Graduate Program in Automation and Systems Engineering, the program is granted two scholarships at the Master’s level and one scholarship at the Doctoral level, with additional funding for the infrastructure required.
For its relevance, the Roboturb Project, involving several members of the faculty body in Automation and Systems Engineering, should be mentioned. The project started in 1999 and received funding for the first phase (1999-2001) from PADCT-Finep and Copel. For the second phase (2001-2003) the funding was from RHAE-MCT. For the third phase (2003-2005) funding was provided by FURNAS. Funding for the fourth phase is being negotiated with ANEEL. The funding is in the form of capital investment, consumable items, services, and scholarships at various levels.
Since December 2004, the Department of Automation and Systems Engineering participates in the CATI Program MCT, with the aim of developing research with companies in the computer hardware sector that benefit from tax incentives, particularly Brascontrol and WEG Automation. The department has been receiving funding from these companies in various forms.
According to the program’s statistics, the total funding received for the year of 2015 by the Department of Automation and Systems Engineering, and the Graduate Program in Automation and Systems Engineering, considering only investments from businesses is of the order of R$ 1,120,000, of which R$ 370,000 (33%) in capital, R$ 340,000 (30,4%) in consumable and services, and R$ 410,000 (36,6%) in scholarships.
