Program historical
In 2006, the creation of new undergraduate courses at UFES, Campus São Mateus-ES, made it possible to secure doctors in various areas of knowledge. The interaction between these teachers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds allowed the formation of research groups, thus motivating the development and implementation of an interdisciplinary program in the area of Engineering/Management and Technology.
The Program (PPGEN/UFES) began its activities in April 2011 with 16 permanent teachers and 5 collaborators, belonging to the Departments of Natural Sciences (DCN), Engineering and Technology (DETEC) and Computing and Electronics (DCEL) of UFES, Campus São Mateus-ES.
Located in São Mateus-ES, northern region of the State, the program can serve 75 municipalities, belonging to the North of Espírito Santo, South of Bahia and Northeast of Minas Gerais, with an estimated population of 3 million inhabitants. All holders of Diplomas from Bachelor's degrees in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics can participate in the Selection Process for the Postgraduate Program in Energy. Also, students who have completed the above-mentioned Undergraduate courses can enter the program as long as they can prove that they completed the course on a date prior to enrolling in the program.
At the beginning, the laboratory infrastructure and classrooms of undergraduate courses at UFES, Campus São Mateus-ES, were used by the program. At the end of 2013, the year in which the first master's thesis was defended, the 960m2 energy postgraduate building was inaugurated. This building houses the program's classrooms and laboratories. In order to optimize the space and resources available, all of the program's laboratories are multi-user coordinated by permanent professors of the program.
From 2014 onwards, the Laboratories were consolidated with resources from REUNI and institutional financing projects such as FINEP and Pró-equipamentos from CAPES. In constant updating, the laboratories are maintained and renewed with resources from the program's research projects, whose research funding comes from research projects included in Notices from FAPES/ES and CNPq as well as research projects in partnership with Petrobras.
Since 2015, the program has been carrying out actions that allow the improvement of its permanent teaching staff. In 2020, around 42% of permanent professors had already completed a postdoctoral degree. This strategy allows for the promotion and continuous renewal of the Program's interaction with other research centers, national and foreign universities.
To improve the concept of the program, since 2016 an annual assessment of the scientific and technological production of teachers has been carried out. The accreditation/de-accreditation of teachers occurs every two years. With the objective of interdisciplinary research, accredited professors have diverse disciplinary training and are coherent with the area of concentration, lines and research projects.
Data from 2020 reveals that the program has 12 permanent professors, 5 collaborators and has 115 dissertations defended. In the Scopus database, the program's permanent faculty achieves an average h-index equal to 8, while in the Google Scholar database it obtains an average h-index equal to 10. These indices quantify the number of citations of published research works, thus demonstrating , the quality and impact of the program's intellectual production in the area of concentration. These data allow us to infer that in the Scopus database, 8 articles published by the program's permanent professors receive 8 or more citations, while in the Google database, with the h index, it appears that 10 articles published by the program's permanent professors receive at least 10 quotes.
With regard to research dissemination, the program's professors have prioritized high-impact indexed journals. Current data (2017-2019) indicate that the average number of qualified articles (A1, A2 and B1) with unique students in the Program per Permanent Teacher and per Year increased by 132.34% when compared to that presented in the previous triennium (2013-2016) .
However, to value the work developed with undergraduate and postgraduate students, two specific sections were created in indexed scientific journals to disseminate research results that address topics within the program's fields of activity.
The Indexed Scientific Journals have the participation of two chief editors and section editors who are part of the program's teaching staff. They are: Brazilian Journal of Production Engineering(link is external) and Latin American Journal of Energy Research
The program's research projects in the interdisciplinary area of Engineering/Technology/Management are mainly directed towards the research lines of energy efficiency, oil, gas and renewable energy. In 2017, the program presented 25 projects, 52% of which involved the participation of students and 2 or more teachers. In 2018, the program had 26 projects and 77% of the projects involved the participation of students and 2 or more teachers. In 2019, the program has 10 ongoing research projects and all involve the participation of students and 2 or more professors from the program. In 2020, the program presents 9 projects which have 100% participation from students and 2 or more teachers from the program.
Of the total projects, 4 (four) are in the energy efficiency research line and 5 (five) projects in the oil, gas and renewable energy line, thus creating a balance in the number of projects between the research lines. Compared to the previous three-year period (2013-2016), the program reduced the total number of projects registered in sucupira by 81% (from 49 to 9 projects) and increased the number of integrating projects.
The program's curricular structure and research lines were planned to support the teaching and research activities that make up the program's area of concentration. PPGEN is made up of 3 (three) different areas of Engineering/Technology/Management and seeks to maintain the balance of these different areas in the curricular structure and lines of research.
The program is the only interdisciplinary program at UFES, the 4th (fourth) interdisciplinary program in the State of Espírito Santo and the only one in the Engineering/Management/Technology area. In this way, the Energy program plays an important role in the development of the northern region of the State of Espírito Santo, notably an area whose socioeconomic indexes are below the state and national average. The region has a strong appeal for Energy due to its importance in the production of oil and natural gas, ethanol and energy-intensive industries (granite/ornamental stones, furniture, metalworking, vehicles, ceramics, electric motors, among others). The role of the program is even more evident with the REATE program of the Ministry of Mines and Energy of the Federal Government. REATE seeks to revitalize oil and natural gas exploration and production activities in onshore areas, where new and small companies will be attracted to the region. In this sense, the presence of PPGEN is essential to promote research that contributes to advancing the frontiers of science and technology and also to supply the job market with human resources with excellent qualifications.
With the promotion of research, in these 10 years of existence of the program, the strong interaction between teachers and students enabled the creation of research groups with a commitment to teaching, scientific research and innovation, generating the following impacts on society: Educational, Scientific, Social and other impacts related to the professional performance of graduates for regional development.
It is noteworthy that the strong interaction between the program's teachers and students and graduates has promoted the development of knowledge in the interdisciplinary area of Energy/Technology/Management. In this way, the support of teachers for graduates of the program resulted in the creation of a new NEPE research group(link is external) and the creation of a new postgraduate program at IFES, Campus São Mateus-ES Postgraduate Program in Energy Efficiency(link is external).
The NEPE research group, from IFES São Mateus-ES, has 60% participation from PPGEN/UFES graduates; while the new Lato Sensu postgraduate program in energy efficiency has 30% participation from PPGEN/UFES graduates.
Graduates and enrolled:The program already has 133 masters and counts with 54 students regularly enrolled, being 37 in the masters and 17 in the doctorate.
Name of the coordinators and assistants-coordinators:
Period: 2020-2022
Coordinator: Marcelo Silveira Bacelos
Deputy Coordinator: Paulo Sérgio da Silva Porto
Period: 2018-2020
Coordinator: Paulo Sérgio da Silva Porto
Deputy Coordinator: Laura Marina Pinotti
Period: 2016-2018
Coordinator: Maria de Fátima Pereira dos Santos
Deputy Coordinator: Eduardo Perini Muniz
Period: 2014-2016
Coordinator: Marcelo Silveira Bacelos
Deputy Coordinator: Ana Paula Meneguelo
Period: 2012-2014
Coordinator: Fabio de Assis Ressel Pereira
Deputy Coordinator: Marcelo Silveira Bacelos
Period: 2010-2012
Coordinator: Fabio de Assis Ressel Pereira
Deputy Coordinator: Marcelo Silveira Bacelos
Program report of the CAPES mark:
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Evaluation form: https://bit.ly/2UVu83e
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Evaluation form: https://bit.ly/2JQByys
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For the quadriennium 2017-2020, access the proposal for the Postgraduate Program in Energy (PPGEN) using the link:
PPGEN Proposal
Alternatively, registration data for the Capes program can be accessed at:
