Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

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

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

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.

The campuses I, II and VI are located in Amazonas Avenue in Belo Horizonte. The other campuses (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.

Masters Programmes

Masters Programmes are offered in Civil Engineering, Energy, Mathematics and Computational Modeling, Technological Education, Electrical Engineering and Language and Technology.

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

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

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

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