Inatel is short for Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações, the National Institute of Communications of
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. The Institute is located on a 75,000 m
2 campus in
Santa Rita do Sapucaí
Santa Rita do Sapucaí () is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality situated in the southernmost part of the State of Minas Gerais. The city is known as the "electronic valley", since it has plenty of electronic industries, and both a technical ...
in southern
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 ...
. Founded in 1965, it specializes in
Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
and
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...
s education and research.
As of 2007, Inatel's monthly tuition was 950
reais
The Brazilian real ( pl. '; sign: R$; code: BRL) is the official currency of Brazil. It is subdivided into 100 centavos. The Central Bank of Brazil is the central bank and the issuing authority. The real replaced the cruzeiro real in 1994.
A ...
, and about 5,000 students had graduated from the school.
The Institute sponsors the biennial International Workshop on Telecommunications held in odd-numbered years in
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
.
Researchers at Inatel publish and review technical papers for international conferences.
See also
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List of universities in Brazil
This is a list of universities in Brazil, divided by states.
Across the country there are more than 2,368 Brazilian schools (public and private) recognized by the MEC (Ministry of Education).
Acre
* Faculdade da Amazônia Ocidental (FAAO)
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References
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Educational institutions established in 1965
Engineering research institutes
1965 establishments in Brazil
Universities and colleges in Minas Gerais
Research institutes in Brazil
Telecommunications in Brazil