ETEC Lauro Gomes, formerly known as ETE Lauro Gomes, ETI Lauro Gomes and Escola Técnica Industrial de São Bernardo do Campo is an educational facility located in

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, SP,

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. It offers

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and

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classes. It is named after Lauro Gomes de Almeida,

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for São Bernardo do Campo between 1952 and 1954 and 1960 to 1963. ETEC Lauro Gomes is adjoined to São Paulo Technical School System, conducted by CEETEPS (Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza), an independent government body designed to govern technical schools and faculties in São Paulo.

History

São Bernardo do Campo, a municipality neighboring

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, started to experience a fast growth of the

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sector after the inauguration of

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, a road linking São Paulo to Santos crossing the town. In the 1950s, the traditional

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making industry began to share space with other activities, such as

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s and specially automotive. In 1958, Willys-Overland,

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and

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already had plants in the city, thus demanding skilled workers. In 1956 the Ministry of Education and Culture - MEC granted a ₢$20 million appropriation for the installment of the school, and in 1957 the state decree no. 3734 was established by

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Jânio Quadros to enforce the partnership among the São Paulo Government, the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture and the São Bernardo do Campo Government to establish the facility. The construction has been started in 1958 at a site. In 1964 a council was set to manage a cooperation agreement between the Brazilian government and the former Federal Republic of Germany government to allow the latter to provide equipment, techniques and teachers to improve the teaching level in the school. Such agreement would allow the insertion of German educators for five years into the facility to be gradually substituted by their Brazilian counterparts. However, in 1967, the agreement was not fully operational as the school still was in construction, with a 60% completion rate and offering the construction of machines and engines as its only course, although the Industrial Engineering Faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (now known as

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) already was using part of the facilities. In the year before, the school has been named Lauro Gomes after the former city mayor died in 1964. In the 1970s other programs have been started, such as electronics, electrotechnics, designing of tools and machining fixtures, and industrial laboratory technician. The Electronic data processing course has been established in 1985.

Adjoining the State Technical School Center

In 1980, state decree no. 16309 ordered the school to join Centro Paula Souza, effective January 1, 1981, thus being one of the state-managed technical schools in São Paulo. The law has been enacted by Governor Paulo Maluf.

The Reform

The vocational program and the high school programs were fused into a single lesson plan, the latter frequently adapted to match the skills needed in the first one. However the national technical education reform of 1997 deterred, in practice, the continuation of such scheme, stating only 25% of the full educational schedule could be allocated for vocational lessons. Although such resolution has been superseded in 2004, the liaisons between the vocational and the high school classes were reinstalled as an option, thus allowing the continuation of separate courses offering.

Habilitations Offered

As of 2014, along with the high school classes, the following vocational habilitations are available: *

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Business Administration Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

(derived from former industrial laboratory technician course) *

Electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

* Industrial Automation *

Informatics Informatics is the study of computational systems, especially those for data storage and retrieval. According to ACM ''Europe and'' ''Informatics Europe'', informatics is synonymous with computer science and computing as a profession, in which ...

(derived from former data processing course) *

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

-oriented Informatics *

Logistics Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...

* Mechatronics (derived from former mechanics course) * Office management * Power electronics (derived from former electrotechnics course)

Admission

Admission to the school involves an exam called ''vestibulinho'' ( Portuguese

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form of vestibular, the most dominant admission test employed for those seeking to ingress in a

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in Brazil). It is a

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combined with a written composition.

References

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External links

Centro Paula Souza's website

ETEC Lauro Gomes's website
Secondary schools in Brazil Vocational education Education in São Paulo (state) 1957 establishments in Brazil