History of PPGESE
The UFSC Joinville Campus was inaugurated in August 2009. It develops teaching, research and outreach activities aimed at training professionals with high technical and managerial competence to work in the operation and maintenance of transportation systems, in the study of scenarios and projects to solve infrastructure problems, and in the development of technological systems in mobility-focused areas.
Since 2009, the Joinville Campus has recruited faculty to meet the needs of the Mechatronics Engineering undergraduate program as well as the needs of other programs in the fields of Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Among them, some carried out research and outreach activities in the area of electronic systems, collaborating with companies and supervising undergraduate students on the Joinville and Florianópolis campuses through scientific initiation scholarship programs (PIBIC and PIBITI). In addition, a significant number of faculty members have previous experience or remain active in graduate programs at other education institutions, where they supervise or co-supervise master’s and doctoral students.
These faculty members have demonstrated significant scientific output in the lines of research in Embedded Systems and Power Electronics Systems. This output is primarily evident in publications in journals indexed by the Qualis/CAPES system, as reflected in the DPI/DPD metrics of Engineering Committee IV (see the program characterization), as well as in their participation in research projects involving other national and international institutions. In this context, there arose a clear need to strengthen research activities at the Joinville Campus in the area of electronic systems within the scope of graduate studies, as well as to promote greater integration among faculty through collaborative research activities.
Therefore, the master’s program in Electronic Systems Engineering originated from the need to expand the expertise in the area of electronic systems. The two lines of research in this program are aimed at studying the general principles of design and development of embedded software/hardware, antennas, automation and digital control, electric drives, and power electronics, areas that intersect all undergraduate engineering programs at the Joinville Campus.
