Introduction

The Graduate Program in Metallurgical Engineering at USP's Polytechnic School, at the Master's and Doctorate levels, was set up in 1969, and in 1972 it became the first in the field of engineering to be accredited by the Federal Education Council. In 1990, the scope of the program was expanded to include Graduate Studies in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. In 1995, a Course Recovery Plan was implemented which led to the transformation of various aspects of the Program, such as the reformulation of disciplines, having professors work mostly as full-time academic advisors, the organization of research into five defined Research Lines and Groups, the hiring of new professors, an increase in the number of full-time scholarship students, the implementation of Post-Doctoral Studies, the implementation of new laboratories and the reformulation of existing ones.

Objetives

The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (PMT) at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (EPUSP), which is responsible for the "strictu-sensu" postgraduate area of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, offers Master's and Doctoral postgraduate programs with a CAPES rating of 6.

The program's main objectives are:

• Training high-level human resources in the areas of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Engineering

• Training university professors and researchers;

• Training researchers for public institutions and industrial research centers;

• Carrying out scientific and technological research.

Academic Structure

The Program follows the general regulations of the University of São Paulo formalized in the Postgraduate Regulations; the deliberative bodies are the Postgraduate Council of the University of São Paulo and the Postgraduate Commission of the Polytechnic School, and the executives responsible are the Pro-Rector of Postgraduate Studies, the President of the Postgraduate Commission and the Coordinators of each Program.

Program Admission

Applicants for the Master's degree

They must take an entrance exam administered by the department's postgraduate program, containing basic questions on Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. The entrance exam will be eliminatory and the minimum mark must be 5.0/10.0 (five out of ten, or 50% of correct answers).

Doctoral candidates (PhD candidates)

They must take an entrance exam administered by the department's postgraduate program, containing basic questions on Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. The entrance exam is eliminatory and the minimum mark must be 5.0 (five). Candidates who have already passed the sufficiency exam for the master's degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the PMT will not need to take the entrance exam again.

Check out more information in the Graduate Program Rules, available on this site.

Obtaining the Title

To obtain a Master's degree, Master's candidates must obtain credits equivalent to 5 postgraduate courses, take a qualifying exam before a panel of three professors and have their dissertation approved by a panel of three professors. To be eligible for the defense, the student must submit a paper to a scientific journal.

Master's degree holders can obtain the title of Doctor of Science after completing credits equivalent to 3 postgraduate courses, a qualifying exam, and a thesis defense before a board of 5 professors. To be eligible for the defense, the student needs to submit two papers to a scientific journal.

Information

Coordinator:

Guilherme Frederico Bernardo Lenz e Silva

Deputy Coordinator:

Ticiane Valera

Office Assistant:

Suellen Alves

suellen.alves@usp.br

(11) 3091-5691

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