The Federal University of Itajubá ( pt, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, UNIFEI; formerly known as the ', EFEI), is a federal university located in the state of

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...

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. It is considered the first technological university and one of top ten engineering schools in Brazil. Extremely reputable among Brazilian engineering schools, it carries more than 100 years of tradition in teaching, with emphasis on Electrical Engineering – which is one of the best research institutes on Power Systems field in Latin America – Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Materials Engineering, Automation and Control engineering and Computer Engineering.

History

The university was founded on November 23, 1913, as the ''Instituto Eletrotécnico e Mecânico de Itajubá'' (IEMI; en, Electrotechnical and Mechanical Institute of Itajubá). On April 16, 1968, the university changed its name to ''Escola Federal de Engenharia de Itajubá'' (Itajubá Federal Engineering School). In 2002, it earned the title of

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, and was renamed as ''Universidade Federal de Itajubá'' (Itajubá Federal University), by the Brazilian Law 10,435, approved by the former president,

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. The university is considered to be one of the best universities of Brazil, according to the ranks published by the Ministério da Educação e Cultura - MEC (Culture and Education Ministry). It was elected in 2009 one of the top ten universities in Brazil by two different rankings, occupying the first position in one of them. In the IGC/2011 (College and Universities Evaluation) by MEC (Ministry of Education), the Itajubá Federal University obtained the grade 5, maximum, being among the best 27 higher-education colleges and among the top 10 universities of the country.

Radio station

The university owns and operates its own AM radio station, called Rádio Universitária 1570 kHz (University Radio) ZYL-242, operating in the 1570 kHz band since early 1961.

International partnershipshttps://www.unifei.edu.br/files/Universidades%20Conveniadas.pdf

Austria

* Montanuniversitat Leoben

Belgium

* Haute Ecole Provinciale de Hainaut Condorcet

Bolivia

* UAGRM - Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno

Canada

* University of British Columbia * University of Victoria * University of Windsor

Chile

* Universidad de Talca

Colombia

* Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas * Universidad Autónoma Del Caribe * Universidad Autónoma de Colombia * Universidad de La Costa * Universidad de Los Andes * Universidad de Santander

Cuba

* Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría

Denmark

* Aalborg University

France

* Polytech Lille * ISAT -

Institut Supérieur de l'Automobile et des Transports The Institut supérieur de l'automobile et des transports is a low-level graduate engineering school, created in 1991. It is located in the campus of the University of Burgundy. It is the only public engineering college in France specialized in ...

* ISAE -

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* ENSAM - École Nationale Superieure d'Arts et métiers * École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy * UTC - Université de Technologie de Compiègne * UTT - Université de Technologie de Troyes * ENIM -

École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Metz École nationale d'ingénieurs de Metz (''ENI Metz'' or ''ENIM'') a French engineering College created in 1960. It is an engineering school oriented towards mechanics and production but which, through the diversity of its training, falls into the ...

* ENIT -

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* ENISE - École nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne * ENIB -

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* ENGEES - École Nationale du Génie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement de Strasbourg * Supinfo International University * Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines * CNAM - Conservatoire National d'Arts et Métiers * Université d'Orleans * Cátedras Francesas *

CentraleSupélec CentraleSupélec (CS) is a top French graduate engineering school of Paris-Saclay University in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. It was established on 1 January 2015, as a result of a strategic merger between two prestigious grandes écoles in France, ...

* ENSMA -

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Germany

* Hochschule Weihenstephan Triesdorf * TU Dresden - Technische Universität Dresden * Otto Von Guericke Universität Magdeburg

India

* Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Netherlands

* TU Eindhoven - Universidade Tecnológica de Eindhoven

Portugal

* Universidade do Algarve * INESC * Universidade de Lisboa * Universidades Lusíada * Universidade do Porto * INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência

South Korea

* Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI)

Spain

* Universidad de Granada * Universidad de Santiago de Compostela * Universidade Carlos III de Madrid

United States

* Washington State University

Uruguay

* Universidad de La República

References

External links

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High Voltage Laboratory LAT-EFEI

Rádio Universitária AM - University Radio
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