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Centro Universitário da FEI is a higher education facility in
São Bernardo do Campo São Bernardo do Campo () is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the state of São Paulo. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 810,729 (2022 census) in an area of . According to 2021 data from ...
,
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, offering
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s in
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,
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, and
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s as well as
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s in
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,
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, and
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; specialization courses are also offered.. It is often ranked among the best Brazilian ''private'' engineering colleges and best ''overall'' in
mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...
,
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, and
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. FEI is an
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for ''Fundação Educacional Inaciana'' ( Portuguese for Educational Foundation of
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), but had meant in the past ''Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial'' (Portuguese for Faculty of Industrial Engineering).


History

Rev. Sabóia de Medeiros, S.J., founded
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s of business and engineering in
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for the fast-growing industrial sector in Brazil. The Superior School of Business Administration (''Escola Superior de Administração de Negócios - ESAN'') came in 1941 and was then the only business school in
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, influenced by the
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model. The Faculty of Industrial Engineering (''Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial - FEI'') offering a
Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of the operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials ...
undergraduate degree came in 1946. In 1946 also these two colleges joined the Catholic University of São Paulo, later
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, but remained affiliated only until 1971. In 1963, the Faculty of Industrial Engineering was founded in São Bernardo do Campo, provisionally sharing the city's Industrial Technical School facilities (nowadays
ETEC Lauro Gomes 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 São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil. It offers secondary education and vocational e ...
). The ceremony was attended by the
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. In 1965, the São Bernardo do Campo campus was inaugurated with a building, and plans for a total site area. At that time, FEI offered undergraduate courses in Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering, as well as
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s in Automotive,
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s,
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,
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,
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, and
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Operational Engineering.At that time, Brazil had two categories for the engineering courses, Engineer (''Engenheiro'') and Operational Engineer (''Engenheiro Operacional''), the first with full capabilities and the second with regulatory limitations, yielding to shorter programs and reduced scope. The Operational Engineer career in Brazil was replaced by the Technologist (''Tecnólogo''). In 1969, FEI sought an agreement with the
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and the Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia to improve its admission test (known as
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in Brazil), called MAPOFEI, by using
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rather than
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questions. The partnership ended in 1977 when the
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decided to merge all admission tests of its many colleges in a single exam conducted by
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, a foundation established for that purpose. FCI, the IT branch, was founded in 1999. Nowadays, the campus at São Bernardo do Campo has 18 buildings on a 24 hectare (60 acres) site and the campus in São Paulo occupies about one hectare (2 acres).


Elevation to University Center

In 2001, the Brazilian Government established a new rule on higher education, allowing for the foundation of universities which, unlike faculties, could initiate and terminate courses. FEI, ESAN, and FCI formed a new university center in 2002, at first called UniFEI. The "Uni" was added as a common designation for
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but had to be dropped since it was already in use by the former Escola Federal de Engenharia de Itajubá (''Federal Engineering School of Itajubá'') - EFEI, upgraded to university under the name
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(''Universidade Federal de Itajubá'') - UNIFEI. So FEI remains the acronym for the amalgamated Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional Inaciana Pe. Sabóia de Medeiros (''University Center of Educational Foundation of Ignatius Father Sabóia de Medeiros'').


Courses

Along with many specialization courses, as of 2014 the following degrees are offered:


Undergraduate degrees

* Automation and Control Engineering *
Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of the operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials ...
*
Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...
*
Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
*
Materials Engineering Materials science is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials. Materials engineering is an engineering field of finding uses for materials in other fields and industries. The intellectual origi ...
*
Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...
*
Production Engineering Manufacturing engineering or production engineering is a branch of professional engineering that shares many common concepts and ideas with other fields of engineering such as mechanical, chemical, electrical, and industrial engineering. Manufac ...
*
Textile Engineering Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful good ...
*
Business Administration Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. Overview The administration of a business includes the performance o ...
*
Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...


Master's degrees

* Administration (specialism in Innovative Management) * Electrical Engineering (specialism in Integrated Electronic Devices, AI applied to Automation) * Mechanical Engineering (specialisms in Materials & Processes, Production, Mobility Systems)


Achievements

FEI sponsors a team for
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, a competition promoted by the
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in which students design and build an off-road vehicle for evaluation. FEI won 1st place in the 2004 Midwest Awards and in the 2007
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Overall Awards, and again won the B&S Overall in 2008. In 2006, an
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called ''Effect of Microgravity on Kinetic Properties of Enzymatic Reactions'' - MEK, carried out by some FEI researchers, was taken aboard the 13th expedition to the
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, in cooperation with the
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and the
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. The experiments were conducted by the Brazilian
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. The first space mission was carried out on February 6, 2000, during the Lençois Maranhenses Operation in Alcântara, with the project "Immobilization of Lipase by Covalent Bonding on Silica Enhanced with Glutaraldehyde." The mission advanced under the guidance of Prof. Adriana Lucarini and student José Angelo Maringoli Limonge.


See also

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