The Graduate Program in Agricultural Engineering of the Federal University of Lavras was created in march of 1990 at the former ‘ESAL’, now UFLA. The proposal for the creation was approved at the Assembly of the Department of Engineering, in the 275th meeting of the 03/27/1989, then submitted to recommendation by the Advisory Technical Group of CAPES. The program started in 1990. The first thesis were completed two years after the beginning of the Program, in august of 1992. In 1994, the program received its first grade, thus being classified as an “A” program according to the evaluation of the Following and Evaluation Sector for Graduate Programs of CAPES, currently equivalent to the grade 5. The doctorate program in the field of concentration Irrigation and Drainage was approved by CAPES in 2002 and commenced in august of that year.
Along with the entrance of new doctor professors at the Department of Engineering who had conditions to participate in the Program, new fields of concentration were created from 2002, such as: Rural Constructions and Ambience (2002), Agricultural Machines and Automation (2003) and Processing of Agricultural Products (2007).
In 2010, under the new coordination, the program went through dismemberment and expressive restructuration, stemming from the CTC/CAPES opinion of 11/10/2009, that recommended the creation of new Graduate Program in Water Resources and Agricultural Systems, thus the PPGEA stopped acting in the field of concentration of water resources, structuring itself according to the new statute of PPGEA approved in meeting of CPGSS/PRPG/ULA in 08/11/2010, guided by the General Statute of the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program (CEPE Resolution no. 007 of January 22th of 2009) of the Federal University of Lavras, with the specific provisions:
1. The Graduate Program in Agricultural Engineering (PPGEA), in the Master and Doctorate levels, has as main goals to enable professionals to act as professors or researchers in the Field of Agricultural Engineering and also to generate knowledge, technologies, new products and processes in their lines of research to Master and Doctorate levels:
– Construction, Ambience and Residues Treatment;
– Instrumentation;
– Agricultural Machines and Mechanization;
– Agricultural Products Processing;
– Remote Sensing and Geoprocessing;
The graduates of the master and doctorate programs are going to be granted with their respective titles of Scientiae Magister (M.Sc.) and Doctor Scientiae (D.Sc.), in the field of concentration of Agricultural Engineering.
The professor staff of the program is composed by doctors formed in qualified institutions of Brazil and abroad, in many subareas of Agricultural Engineering, compatible to the demand of the courses and lines of research. The coordination of the Program has been constantly trying to raise students and professors awareness about the importance of reaching higher performance levels, especially regarding dissertation and thesis work, publications in qualified journals, research projects and effective participation in activities of the program (teaching, advising, and research.)
In the year of 2010, after the restructuring process, the program relied on 25 students in Master’s level and 22 in Doctorate, total of 47 students, focusing on higher objectivity regarding the demands for the conclusion of master and doctorate programs, aiming at working the time availability of students, besides the courses to be taken and the execution of work plan for the publication of pieces of work related to their research subject.
Mission:
The goals of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Engineering are:
I. enabling professionals of similar areas to work as professors or researchers in the field of Agricultural Engineering;
II. enabling the knowledge improvement to solve in a functional way issues related to Agricultural Engineering.
III. contributing to the development of products and innovative technological processes compatible to the environment.
IV. developing innovative educational processes that promote qualified human development and citizenship.
V. providing foundations for scientific and pedagogical behavior in ethical and socially correct standards.
Goals:
The Graduate Program in Agricultural Engineering (PPGEA), at the master’s and doctorate levels, has as main goals to enable professionals to work as professors or researchers in the field of Agricultural Engineering and also to generate knowledge, technologies, new products or processes in their lines of research. Graduates of Master’s and Doctorate programs will be granted with the titles of Magister Scientiae (M. Sc.) and Doctor Scientiae (D. Sc.) in Agricultural Engineering, according to the rules and statutes in force.
Concentration Area
Agricultural Engineering