The School of Engineering of Juiz de Fora ( pt, Escola de Engenharia de Juiz de Fora) was an engineering college in the city of

Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora (, '' Outsider Judge''), also known as J.F., is a city in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, approximately from the state border with Rio de Janeiro. According to 2020 estimates the current population is about 57 ...

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. It is now the engineering faculty of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). The former president of Brazil

Itamar Franco Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco (; 28 June 19302 July 2011) was a Brazilian politician who served as the 33rd president of Brazil from 29 December 1992 to 31 December 1994. Previously, he was the 21st vice president of Brazil from 1990 until th ...

was an alumnus. It was set up in 1914 in the city of Juiz de Fora,

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state, Brazil, and taught a five-year course of Civil and Eletrotechnic Engineering. In 1960, the school joined the Medicine, Pharmacy and Law schools of that city to found the UFJF. Nowadays, the Faculty of Engineering provides courses in civil, production, electrical (divided into telecommunication, energy, power, electronic, robotic and automation systems),

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computer A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations ( computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These prog ...

, sanitary and

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engineering, and

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External links

UFJF web site
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