Curricular structure

The subjects are divided into areas of concentration (42 subjects) and related domains (21 subjects). The first group provides training in the fields of the Program, and the second provides complimentary knowledge to the student’s education. As a rule, the subjects in the concentration area must total at least 50% of the number of credits required for the student’s degree (a total of 18 credits at the master’s level and 30 credits at the doctoral level).

Enrollment in Teaching Internship for at least one semester is also mandatory for all Ph.D. scholarship holders and optional for other students. In the Internship, the student usually works in an undergraduate course offered by DEC and coordinated by his advisor. Every student must enroll in CIV 797 – Seminar in the second semester (master’s) or third semester (doctoral) of the course to prepare, present and defend their research project to an examining board. Passing the Seminar, the student must register her/his research project in the UFV Research and Postgraduate System, where she/he indicates the Program research line.

In general, subjects in the area of ​​concentration are taught by professors of the Department of Civil Engineering (code CIV or EAM), who also teach undergraduate subjects for the three undergraduate courses linked to DEC; while those in the related domain are taught by professors from other UFV departments. The Special Topics subjects are offered on a non-regular basis, with a varied menu, bibliography and content, covering emerging themes from different areas of concentration, with the potential to become permanent subjects of the Program. The Special Problems courses are offered to a single student whose demand for knowledge requires the study of a specific topic of research not addressed in the regular courses offered at UFV.

The basic unit for evaluating the intensity and duration of UFV courses is the credit, with 1 (one) credit equivalent to 15 (fifteen) hours of classes. The UFV courses are identified by an alphanumeric code consisting of three capital letters followed by three digits. The letters indicate the department that provides the subject. The first number after the subject title specifies the number of credits, the numbers in parentheses is the weekly workload of theoretical-practical classes, and the roman numeral is the semester the subject is offered. It is noteworthy that, although the PPGEC subjects are divided into four areas of concentration, these can be taken by students from any area of ​​concentration in the Program. Next, the PPGEC’s set of subjects:

SUBJECTS OF THE AREA OF CONCENTRATION

General (4 subjects)

CIV 790/791/792 – Special Topics 1/2/3 I and II
CIV 794/795/796 – Special Problems 1/2/3 I and II
CIV 797 – Seminar 0(1-0) I and II
CIV 799 – Research (Credits: 0)

Area of ​​concentration in Construction Engineering (11 subjects)

CIV 650 – Experimental Analysis of Structures 4(3-2) II
CIV 651 – Finite Element Method 4(4-0) I
CIV 652 – Numerical Methods in Geotechnics 4(4-0) II
CIV 654 – Fundamentals of Concrete Structures 4(4-0)
CIV 655 – Prefabricated Concrete Systems 4(4-0) I
CIV 656 – Fundamentals of Steel Structures 4(4-0) I
CIV 657 – Composite Structures 4(4-0) II
CIV 660 – Science and Technology of Building Materials 4(4-0) I (PT/EN)
CIV 664 – Pathology and Rehabilitation of Constructions 4(4-0) II
CIV 665 – Eco-Efficient Construction and Building Materials 4(4-0) II (PT/EN)
CIV 668 – Structural Masonry 4(4-0) II

Area of ​​concentration in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (10 subjects)

CIV 637 – Geographic Information Systems 4(4-0) I
CIV 640 – Physical-Chemical and Biological Processes in the Treatment of Solid Waste
CIV 641 – Physical and Chemical Processes Applied to Water and Wastewater Treatment I 4(4-0) I
CIV 642 – Biological Processes Applied to Wastewater Treatment 4(4-0) I
CIV 643 – Aquatic Ecotoxicology 3(3-0) II
CIV 644 – Physical and Chemical Processes Applied to Water and Wastewater Treatment II 4(4-0) II
CIV 645 – Water Quality and Health Risk Assessment 3(3-0) II
CIV 646 – Urban Hydrographic Basins 4(4-0) II
CIV 647 – Solid Waste and Environmental Health 4(4-0) II
CIV 648 – Processes for the Treatment and Recovery of Sludge and Biosolids 3(3-0) I

Area of ​​concentration in Geotechnics (13 subjects)

CIV 615 – Mechanics of the Pavements 4(4-0) II
CIV 630 – Stress and Deformation Analysis in Soils 3(3-0) I
CIV 631 – Geology for Engineers 4(2-2) I
CIV 632 – Advanced Soil Mechanics 4(2-2)
CIV 633 – Stability of Slopes and Containment Works 5(3-2) II
CIV 634 – Foundations 5(3-2) II
CIV 635 – Earth and Rockfill Dams 4(2-2) II
CIV 636 – Instrumentation and Special Soil Tests 6(2-4) II
CIV 638 – Rock Mechanics 4(4-0) II
CIV 639 – Sanitary Landfill Project 3(3-0)
CIV 731 – Environmental Impacts in Civil Engineering 2(2-0) I
CIV 732 – Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils 4(4-0) II
SOL 650 – Soil Chemistry 5(3-2) I

Area of ​​concentration in Spatial Information (11 subjects)

EAM 610 – Underwater Geoacoustics 3(3-0) II
EAM 620 – Satellite Positioning 4(4-0) I
EAM 630 – Machine Learning: Principles and Applications 4(1-3) I.
EAM 650 – Advanced Geoprocessing 4(4-0) II
EAM 670 – Digital Photogrammetry I 4(2-2) II
ENF 610 – Remote Sensing 4(2-2) II
ENF 613 – Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems 4(2-2) II
ENG 639 – Digital Image Processing 5(3-2)
EST 635 – Applied Spatial Statistics 4(4-0) II
EST 734 – Geostatistics 4(2-2) I
INF 621 – Database 4(4-0) I and II
INF 624 – Spatial Database 4 (4 – 0) I

RELATED DOMAIN SUBJECTS

General (8 subjects)

CIV 776/777/778 – Teaching Internship I/II/III I and II
EST 620 – Applied Statistics 4(4-0) I and II
EST 622 – Experimental Statistics I 4(2-2) I
EST 627 – Sampling and Non-Parametric Tests 3(3-0) I
EST 630 – Statistical Methods I 4(4-0) I
EST 631 – Statistical Methods II 4(4-0) II
INF 690 – Computer Graphics 4(4-0) I and II
LET 610 – Instrumental English I 4(4-0) I and II

Area of ​​concentration in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (4 subjects)

ENF 666 – Environmental Control in the Pulp and Paper Industry 3(2-2) II
ENF 685 – Environmental Impact Assessment 3(2-2) II
CHI 750 – Thermodynamics at Equilibrium 4 (4-0) I.
CHI 752 – Physical-Chemistry of Colloidal Systems 4(4-0) II

Area of ​​concentration in Geotechnics (7 subjects)

ENG 740 – Modeling the Dynamics of Water and Solute in Soil 4(4-0) I
ENG 741 – Groundwater Hydrology 4(4-0) II
SOL 615 – Soil Mineralogy 6(2-4) II
SOL 626 – Genesis and Classification of Soils 6(2-4) I
SOL 640 – Soil Physics 6(2-4) II
SOL 646 – Recovery of Degraded Areas 6(2-4) II
SOL 730 – Pedogeomorphology 6(2-4) II

Area of ​​concentration in Spatial Information (2 subjects)

EST 633 – Statistics in Quality Control 4(4-0) I
ENG 622 – Quantitative Methods in Climatology 4(4-0) I