Master's Degree

Program Duration

The Master’s Degree program has a maximum period of two years (24 months).

Target Audience

The Master’s Degree program is aimed at applicants from several areas of work, including Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Political Sciences and others. However, applicants with a solid training in scientific and experimental subjects in the environmental area are likely to excel at the admission process. The Master’s Degree course ideal applicant must demonstrate intellectual capacity proven by their school records and a genuine interest in finishing the course in due time and with results to be published.

Admission Process

The Master’s Degree program has an annual admission process. The notices are usually published in the end of the year. To access more information on open admission processes, go to the section “Admission Notices” above. Check ProAmb’s website periodically to read news on the new notices and its respective approvals and results.

Important: The adminission process usually includes exams in the Portuguese language. Most of the coursework is offered in Portuguese. However, the dissertation can be written and defended in the English language.

Scholarships

The Program is able to offer Master’s Degree scholarships to the applicants approved in the admission process, depending on its available budget and the applicant’s classification. The amount of R$ 1,500. 00 is a standardized grant offered by the Research Funding Agencies.

The students who get the scholarships through the Program must attend the Teacher’s Training Internship at least during one semester. Besides, the CAPES, UFOP and Fundação Gorceix scholarship holders must fully dedicate themselves to their research projects. It is forbidden any kind employment relationship. CAPES and CNPq only allow their scholarship holders to earn financial support from other sources if they dedicate themselves to activities related to their area of study and relevant for their academic, scientific and technological qualification.

Besides the Program’s scholarships, some research projects use their own resources to pay monthly fees to the students engaged in them.

Courses and Course Syllabus

The mandatory and optional courses are listed below. The student who is already attending similar courses in other Graduate Programs qualified by CAPES in Brazil can request credit equivalence via a specific form. The approval will depend on the Student-Faculty Council’s assessment.

 

Mandatory Courses

Code

Course

C.L.  

Credit

Program, Course Syllabus and References

Area of concentration: Environment

PEA - 511

Studies and Environmental Projects

45

3

PEA - 518

Scientific Methodology

45

3

PEA - 528

Experimental Planning and Environmental Data Analysis

45

3

Area of concentration: Water resources

PEA - 516

Water Resources Management

45

3

PEA - 518

Scientific Methodology

45

3

PEA - 528

Experimental Planning and Environmental Data Analysis

45

3

Area of concentration: Environmental Technologies

PEA - 518

Scientific Methodology

45

3

PEA - 527

Environmental Chemistry

45

3

PEA - 528

Experimental Planning and Environmental Data Analysis

45

3


Optional Courses

Code

Course

C.L.  

Credit

Program, Course Syllabus and References

PEA - 502

Environmental Hydrology

45

3

PEA - 503

Instrumental Methods on Chemical Analysis

45

3

PEA - 509

Contamination and Remediation of Soil and Groundwater

45

3

PEA - 521

Hydrosphere Content and Dynamics

45

3

PEA - 525

Concepts and Instruments on Sustainable Engineering

45

3

PEA - 529

Kinetics and Reactor Calculation

45

3

PEA - 530

Microbiology Applied to Sanitation

45

3

PEA - 531

Computational Methods Applied to Water Resources

45

3

PEA - 532

Production And Characterization of Materials with Environmental Application

45

3

PEA - 533

Solid Waste Characterization And Treatment

45

3

PEA - 534

Characterization and Treatment of Residual Industrial Waters

45

3

PEA - 535

Water Quality and Treatment

45

3

PEA - 537

Physiochemical Surface Applied to Environmental Chemistry

45

3

PEA - 538

Thermodynamics  of Watery Systems of Environmental Relevance

45

3

PEA - 539

Technologies for Residual Water Biological Treatment

45

3

PEA - 543

Biomass For Energy, Fuels and Chemical Products

45

3

PEA - 544

Chemistry  of Lignocellulose Materials – Infrastructure, Reactions and Applications

45

3

Six-Month Schedule

In the beginning of each semester, the courses availability and their respective schedule programs are released.

The digital and complete version of the program's dissertations and thesis are available on UFOP’s repository.