Civil Engineering Graduate Program

The Civil Engineering Graduate Program (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil - PCV) is associated with the Department of Civil Engineering (Departamento de Engenharia Civil - DEC), which belongs to the Center for Technology (Centro de Tecnologia - CTC) of the State University of Maringá (Universidade Estadual de Maringá - UEM). The Program was approved by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES) with score 3 on 19th December 2012, and began its activities in April 2013. PCV was established as an important program for the city of Maringá and its surrounding cities, as well as the State of Paraná. This happened due to the growing current demand for professionals who seek to improve their knowledge and skills to work in the labor market or inside the academic and research environment.

The Master’s Program has Structures and Geotechnics as its concentration area, and it aims to educate competent engineers, professionals prepared to handle advanced analysis techniques and structural projects. PCV comprises computational resources and new materials, contributing to the students’ technological and scientific development. These engineers will be qualified to comprehend, develop and spread new concepts, techniques and procedures inherent to the contemporary research field of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering.

The Program encompasses a regularly and systematically organized course of studies and scientific works, besides research activities, which aims to lead its students towards obtaining the Master’s Degree in three different research fields: Structural Analysis, Geotechnical Investigation and Materials Science.