Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
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The Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (Federal Center of Technological Education of Minas Gerais, 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
.
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.
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.
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
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
. The other campuses (Decentralized Education Units - UNEDs) located within the state of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
, the cities of Leopoldina
Leopoldina
Leopoldina is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. , it has a population of 51,136.It is situated in the southeastern Zona da Mata mesoregion of the state....
, Araxá
Araxá
Araxá is a city and municipality in southwest Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The population was 87,764 inhabitants and the area of the municipality is 1,283 km², with 345 km² making up the urban perimeter.-Geography:...
, Divinópolis
Divinópolis
Divinópolis is a city and municipality located in the centre-west of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The estimated population in 2007 was 201,921 inhabitants. The total area of the municipality is 709 km² and the elevation is 712 metres. It is located at 120 km from state capital Belo Horizonte...
, Varginha
Varginha
Varginha is a city and municipality in southwest Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The estimated population is approximately 120,000 inhabitants and the area of the municipality is 396.39 km²...
, Timóteo
Timóteo
Timóteo is a Brazilian city in the state of Minas Gerais, located by the Piracicaba River. The population as of 2006 was 81,219 inhabitants. the city belongs to the metropolitan area of the Steel Valley . It is the hometown of Acesita, a steel factory specialized in the production of stainless...
, Nepomuceno
Nepomuceno
Nepomuceno is a Brazilian municipality located in the south of the state of Minas Gerais. The population in 2007 was 24,430 in a total area of 584 km². The maximum elevation is 1,100 mts and the minimum is 850 mts with the municipal seat lying at an elevation ofThe city belongs to the IBGE...
, Curvelo
Curvelo
Curvelo is a city and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is located in the geodesic centre of Minas Gerais, 170 km. north of the capital, Belo Horizonte, and connected to the capital by highways MG 135 and BR 040. Its estimated population is 74.409 inhabitants and the...
and Contagem
Contagem
Contagem is a city in the center of the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. It is located only 21 kilometers from the capital, Belo Horizonte and forms part of a metropolitan area with a population of 4.8 million....
.
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.