Parana Federal Technological University
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Federal University of Technology - Paraná , formerly known as Federal Center of Technological Education of Paraná , is a public university with campuses in twelve cities of the Brazilian state of Paraná
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On October 7, 2005, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
transformed it into the first Federal University of Technology in Brazil. It still acts as a technical high school, classified as the best of Paraná, according the Brazilian education index ENEM
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, Bachelor
, Bachelor of Engineering
and technology
degrees. The cut value for final grades is 6.0 from 10.0, meaning that students must know roughly half of what is taught to earn a degree.
UTFPR has signed the REUNI federal pact.
Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...
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Campuses
The campuses are located in the following cities:- ApucaranaApucaranaApucarana is a municipality in the state of Paraná in Brazil, located at coordinates . The municipality covers at an elevation of above mean sea level. Its 2008 population was estimated as 120,133.- Transportation :The city is served by Cap...
- Campo MourãoCampo MourãoCampo Mourão is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Its population in 2009 was 90,460 inhabitants. The people from Campo Mourão are called mourãoenses....
- Cornélio ProcópioCornélio ProcópioCornélio Procópio is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
- CuritibaCuritibaCuritiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...
- Dois VizinhosDois Vizinhos"Dois Vizinhos é um município brasileiro do estado do Paraná localizado na mesoregião do Sudoeste Paranaense e na microrregião de Francisco Beltrão, a uma latitude de 25° 45' 00" sul e a uma longitude 53° 03' 25" oeste, estando a uma altitude média de 509 metros. Sua população estimada em 2010 é de...
- Francisco BeltrãoFrancisco BeltrãoFrancisco Beltrão is the largest town in the southwest region of Paraná state in Brazil. It was established on December 14, 1952. According to the official The population is about 72,000 inhabitants, which 85% live in the city and 15% in the land. Francisco Beltrão is very close to two another...
- GuarapuavaGuarapuavaGuarapuava is a city in the mid south of Paraná state in Brazil. It is the largest city in that state by area.Guarapuava is located at 25°23'36" south and 51°27'19" west. The region is known as the centre of the state of Paraná, in the third plateau, also called of the Plateau of Guarapuava...
- LondrinaLondrinaLondrina is a city located in the northern region of the state of Paraná, Brazil, and is 369 km away from the capital, Curitiba. Londrina was originally founded by British settlers. The city exerts great influence on Paraná and Brazil's south region...
- MedianeiraMedianeiraMedianeira is a city in Paraná, Brazil. It is located at around . As of 2004 it had 39.639 inhabitants. The agriculture-industrial sector is the base of the city's economy....
- Ponta GrossaPonta GrossaPonta Grossa is a city in the state of Paraná, Brazil. With a population of over 315,000 inhabitants, it is the 4th most populous city of Paraná.It is the second industrial pole of the State, exceeded only by Curitiba—the State's capital and largest city...
- Pato BrancoPato BrancoPato Branco is a city in the southwest part of the Brazilian state Paraná. The municipality covers 537,8 km² and has a population of 66,680 . Pato Branco started off as a village in 1942 and was given status as a city December 14th 1952...
- ToledoToledo, ParanáThe city of Toledo is located in the Western region of Paraná state, a state located in the south of Brazil.The city is bordered by the following towns/cities:* North: Maripá e Nova Santa Rosa;* South: Santa Tereza do Oeste e São Pedro do Iguaçu;...
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History
It was first founded in 1910, as the School of Apprentices and Artificers of Paraná (Portuguese: Escola de Aprendizes e Artífices do Paraná). Two decades later, it started acting as a basic education school and was renamed Industrial Lyceum of Curitiba (Portuguese: Liceu Industrial de Curitiba). Later it was instituted together with federal industrial schools, renamed Technical School of Curitiba (Portuguese: Escola Técnica de Curitiba) and then, in 1959, to Federal Technical School of Paraná (Portuguese: Escola Técnica Federal do Paraná). In 1978 it became a Federal Center of Technological EducationCEFET
The Federal Centers of Technological Education are Brazilian educational institutes which are directly linked to the Ministry of Education...
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On October 7, 2005, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , known popularly as Lula, served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.A founding member of the Workers' Party , he ran for President three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as...
transformed it into the first Federal University of Technology in Brazil. It still acts as a technical high school, classified as the best of Paraná, according the Brazilian education index ENEM
Enem
Enem may refer to:*Enem , an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Adygea, Russia*Enem , a high-school exam in Brazil*ENEM, Encontro Nacional de Educação Matemática National Congress of Mathematics Education...
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Degrees
UTFPR offers LicentiateLicentiate
Licentiate is the title of a person who holds an academic degree called a licence. The term may derive from the Latin licentia docendi, meaning permission to teach. The term may also derive from the Latin licentia ad practicandum, which signified someone who held a certificate of competence to...
, Bachelor
Bachelor
A bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been married . Unlike his female counterpart, the spinster, a bachelor may have had children...
, Bachelor of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering
The Bachelor of Engineering is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a student after three to five years of studying engineering at universities in Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland , Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Korea,...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
degrees. The cut value for final grades is 6.0 from 10.0, meaning that students must know roughly half of what is taught to earn a degree.
UTFPR has signed the REUNI federal pact.
Licentiate
- PhysicsPhysicsPhysics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
- Languages and LiteraturesLinguisticsLinguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
(English) - ChemistryChemistryChemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
Bachelor
- Graphic and product design
- Information systemsInformation systemsInformation Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
- Physical educationPhysical educationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
- Business AdministationBachelor of Business AdministrationThe Bachelor of Business Administration is a bachelor's degree in Commerce and business administration. In most universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study in one or more areas of business concentrations; see below...
Engineering
- Electrical engineering branch
- Industrial electronic engineeringElectronic engineeringElectronics engineering, also referred to as electronic engineering, is an engineering discipline where non-linear and active electrical components such as electron tubes, and semiconductor devices, especially transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, are utilized to design electronic...
- Industrial electrotechnical engineering
- Industrial control engineeringControl engineeringControl engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors...
- Computer engineeringComputer engineeringComputer engineering, also called computer systems engineering, is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design, and...
- Industrial electronic engineering
- Mechanical engineering branch
- Industrial mechanical engineeringMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
- Industrial mechanical engineering
- Civil engineering branch
- Civil engineeringCivil engineeringCivil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
- Civil engineering
Technology
- Institutional communication
- Concrete technology
- Graphic design
- Electrical commercial management
- Manufacture management
- Industrial mechatronics
- Environmental management
- Radiology
- Telecommunications
- Internet systems
Engineering
- Industrial electrical engineering (for 2012)Electrical engineeringElectrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
- Production engineeringProduction engineeringProduction engineering is a combination of manufacturing technology with management science. A production engineer typically has a wide knowledge of engineering practices and is aware of the management challenges related to production...
- Food engineeringFood engineeringFood engineering is a multidisciplinary field of applied physical sciences which combines science, microbiology, and engineering education for food and related industries. Food engineering includes, but is not limited to, the application of agricultural engineering, mechanical engineering and...
- Ambient engineering
Technology
- Food TechnologyFood technologyFood technology, is a branch of food science which deals with the actual production processes to make foods.-Early history of food technology:...
- Industrial electromechanical maintenance
- System development and analyses
Engineering
- Computer engineeringComputer engineeringComputer engineering, also called computer systems engineering, is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design, and...
- Civil production engineeringCivil engineeringCivil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
- Electromechanical production engineeringElectromechanicsIn engineering, electromechanics combines the sciences of electromagnetism, of electrical engineering and mechanics. Mechanical engineering in this context refers to the larger discipline which includes chemical engineering, and other related disciplines. Electrical engineering in this context...
- Industrial electrical engineeringElectrical engineeringElectrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
Technology
- Food technologyFood technologyFood technology, is a branch of food science which deals with the actual production processes to make foods.-Early history of food technology:...
- Industrial automation
- System development and analyses