UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC

Short History

• 26/07/2005 – Creation of UFABC

• August, 2006 come into exercise the first 100 teachers

• September, 2006 starts the first graduating class

• August 2007 are recommended the first six graduate programs by CAPES

• Today: about 500 teachers, 8000 students.

• Dozens of international cooperation with companies and universities

UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC

Our pedagogical process favors the exercise of creativity and innovation instead of the passive attitude of knowledge transmission.

UFABC also has a mission to explore new paths in scientific and technological research, without frontiers, applied to the search for the secrets of nature, to the invention of new technologies and to the rational criticism that all intellectual production is subject to.

The UFABC also considers fundamental to be open for interactions with society, contributing to the material and intellectual welfare of the people.

• 100% of teachers have PhD with exclusive dedication.

• Agreements and contacts with key science institutes of Brazil.

• ~ 50 newly constructed laboratories. • Areas of current interest:

renewable energy, aerospace, biomedical, environmental, telecommunications, robotics and nanotechnology.

Overview, centers and nucleous

Courses:

Centers and Nuclei:

Engineering Bachelor Undergraduate

• Environmental and Urban

• Aerospace • Biomedical • Energy • Management • Materials • Information • Instrumentation,

Automation and Robotics

• Biological Sciences • Computer Science • Physics • Mathematics • Chemistry • Neuroscience • Philosophy • Economics • Territorial Planning • Public Policy • International

Relations

• Biological Sciences • Physics • Mathematics • Chemistry • Philosophy

Center of Natural Sciences and Humanities

Center of Mathematics, Computation and Cognition

Center of Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences

Nucleus for Science, Technology and Society (NCTS)

Nucleus for Cognition and Complex Systems (NCSC)

Nucleus for Virtual Universes, Entertainment and Mobility (CLOUD)

Nucleus for Biochemistry and Biotechnology (NBB)

Nucleus for Strategic Studies on Democracy, Development and Sustainability (NEEDDS)