Centro Universitário FEI | |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1941; 84 years ago (1941) |
| Affiliation | Society of Jesus[1] |
| Chancellor | Fabio do Prado |
| President | Father Theodoro Paulo Severino Peters, S.J. |
| Vice-Chancellor | Marcelo Antonio Pavanello |
| Rector | Sc.D.Prof. Fábio do Prado,[2] |
Academic staff | ~350 |
| Students | ~8250 |
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| Website | FEI.edu.br |
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Centro Universitário da FEI is a higher education facility inSão Bernardo do Campo,Brazil, offeringundergraduate degrees inengineering,business administration, andcomputer sciences as well asmaster's degrees inmechanical engineering,electrical engineering, andadministration; specialization courses are also offered.[3] It is often ranked among the best Brazilianprivate engineering colleges and bestoverall inmechanical engineering,electrical engineering, andcomputer science.[4][5]
FEI is anabbreviation forFundação Educacional Inaciana (Portuguese for Educational Foundation ofIgnatius),[6] but had meant in the pastFaculdade de Engenharia Industrial (Portuguese for Faculty of Industrial Engineering).
Rev. Sabóia de Medeiros,S.J., foundedcolleges of business and engineering inSão Paulo 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 inLatin America,[7] influenced by theHarvard Business School model.[1][7] The Faculty of Industrial Engineering (Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial - FEI) offering aChemical Engineering undergraduate degree came in 1946.[8] In 1946 also these two colleges joined the Catholic University of São Paulo,[9] laterPontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, but remained affiliated only until 1971.[1]
In 1963, the Faculty of Industrial Engineering was founded in São Bernardo do Campo, provisionally sharing the city's Industrial Technical School facilities (nowadaysETEC Lauro Gomes[10]). The ceremony was attended by thePresident of BrazilJoão Goulart.[11]In 1965, the São Bernardo do Campo campus was inaugurated with a 4,600 square metres (50,000 sq ft) building, and plans for a 40,000 square metres (430,000 sq ft) total site area. At that time, FEI offered undergraduate courses in Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering, as well asassociate degrees inAutomotive,HVAC,machine tools,Textile,Metallurgy,Electronics, andElectrotechnics Operational Engineering.[12][note 1][13]In 1969, FEI sought an agreement with thePolytechnic School of the University of São Paulo and theInstituto Mauá de Tecnologia to improve its admission test (known asvestibular in Brazil), called MAPOFEI, by usingessay rather thanmultiple choice questions.[14][15] The partnership ended in 1977 when theUniversity of São Paulo decided to merge all admission tests of its many colleges in a single exam conducted byFUVEST, a foundation established for that purpose.[16]FCI, theIT branch, was founded in 1999.[1]
Nowadays, the campus at São Bernardo do Campo has 18 buildings on a 24 hectare (60 acres) site[17] and the campus in São Paulo occupies about one hectare (2 acres).[18]
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.[19]FEI, ESAN, and FCI formed a new university center in 2002, at first calledUniFEI.[20] The "Uni" was added as a common designation foruniversities 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 nameFederal University of Itajubá (Universidade Federal de Itajubá) - UNIFEI.[21] 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).[22]
Along with many specialization courses, as of 2014 the following degrees are offered:[3]
FEI sponsors a team forBaja SAE, a competition promoted by theSociety of Automotive Engineers in which students design and build an off-road vehicle for evaluation.[23] FEI won 1st place in the 2004 Midwest Awards[24] and in the 2007Briggs & Stratton Overall Awards,[25] and again won the B&S Overall in 2008.[26]In 2006, anexperiment calledEffect of Microgravity on Kinetic Properties of Enzymatic Reactions - MEK, carried out by some FEI researchers, was taken aboard the13th expedition to theInternational Space Station,[27] in cooperation with theRussian Federal Space Agency and theBrazilian Space Agency. The experiments were conducted by theBrazilianastronautMarcos Pontes.[28] 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.
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