Institution Infrastructure
Laboratories linked to the Civil Engineering Department
PPGEC has a modern laboratory infrastructure compatible with the teaching and research needs of the four areas of concentration. This is an infrastructure concentrated in two large laboratory complexes (Civil Engineering Laboratories – LEC and Engineering Laboratories – LABENGE), in addition to other spaces located on the Viçosa Campus.
Multi-user and/or partner laboratories linked to other Departments
PPGEC has access to partner laboratories and multi-user equipment hosted in other UFV departments and even other partner institutions. This infrastructure provides the Department of Civil Engineering, through UFV’s institutional infrastructure and Multi-User laboratory policy, with a wide range of analysis possibilities, considered fundamental for advanced analytical research carried out by PPGEC, which allows the Program to follow global scientific research, and facilitate the growing number of relevant scientific publications in international journals at the highest levels. It is important to highlight that this infrastructure has been increasingly used, making PPGEC a program integrated with multidisciplinary research, and establishing strategic partnerships with other departments of the institution more focused on analytical research, in cutting-edge applied research work, such as those involving nanotechnology and nanomaterials applied to high-performance and piezoresistive composites and those involving microscopic and chemical characterization of mineralogical and chemical components of soils and rocks.
Library
The UFV Central Library offers access to the CAPES journals portal, as well as reference databases. It is the depositary library of the United Nations and the base library of COMUT (Bibliographic Switching Program). It is part of the IBICT/CNPq Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), and maintains a record of theses and dissertations defended at UFV, which can be accessed in full in PDF format via the internet.
The Central Library is located in the center of the Viçosa university campus and occupies a modern and functional four-story building, with a total area of 12,816.59 m². It offers users more than 2,050 study stations that include rooms for individual and group use, as well as a videoconference room, special collections, collections of rare works, multimedia, map library, video room, space for leisure reading, space for research to databases and electronic journals, a hall for various exhibitions and an auditorium.
It was built in compliance with safety and accessibility standards for public buildings and both the main entrance and the secondary entrance allow access for the physically disabled, with large circulation areas and 2 elevators.
On the ground floor, there are administrative sectors such as: the Directorate, the Assistant Directorate, Administrative Support, the Office Hours Secretariat, the Construction Restoration Sector, and service sectors such as: the Reservations room, the Reference Service and Customer Service. Public, collection consultation terminals through the PERGAMUM system with user assistance, (www.bbt.ufv.br), the COMUT service, and terminals for accessing the CAPES portal. It has large study areas, a videoconference room with 60 seats, an auditorium with 170 seats, and an exhibition hall.
On the 1st floor there are 3 rooms with acoustic coating for group study, 12 individual study rooms, multimedia collection room, map library, United Nations collection (UN Library), Internal Processing Service, Selection and Acquisition Section, Cataloging and Classification Section and assistance to Sectoral Libraries, Digital Collections Section, Rare Works collection, the Brazilian Coffee Information System – SBICafé, Mapoteca and the UFV Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
On the 2nd floor is the collection of books, theses, dissertations and bulletins, the Circulation and Loans Section and the reading area, with tables for group and individual studies.
On the 3rd floor is the collection of periodicals and broad areas of study. UFV also has 11 sectoral libraries, which add up to a total built area of more than 1000 m² available to students in the various departments, in addition to two libraries on the campuses of Florestal and Rio Paranaíba cities.
The current collection management system is PERGAMUM, which makes it possible to make the catalog and the movement of their account available to users, such as reservations and renewals via the internet, and also the administration of material circulation routines, ensuring the relationship between users and the Library. The system also facilitates the exchange of information and the sharing of bibliographic records with other libraries, from other institutions, from the country and abroad.
The bibliographic collection, located in the Central Library and in the sectoral libraries on the Viçosa campus, reached the following numbers in December 2018: 188,041 books, 37,850 theses and dissertations, 426,439 periodicals. The collection also includes 4,935 special materials (maps, slides, video tapes, CD-ROMs, DVDs, floppy disks, and others), in addition to 11,624 bulletins, 140 technical standards and 1,185 reference works.
The Central Library is a depositary library of the UN – United Nations Organization and its main users are students from the University College, COLUNI and undergraduate students. It also offers access to the Brazilian Coffee Information System – SBICafé (available at www.sbicafé.ufv.br), the CAPES Periodicals portal (periodical titles), as well as reference databases. It is the base library of COMUT (Bibliographic Switching Program) which, in 2018, received 60 requests and sent 54, including conference proceedings, parts of documents, journal articles and theses. It is part of the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) of IBICT/CNPq, having registered in 2018, 11,365 titles that can be accessed in full in PDF format via the internet. The repository also has 9,682 scientific articles available in full. Participates in national and international information and documentation systems in the agricultural area, as well as in the National Collective Catalog of Periodicals. And it provides interlibrary loan, which is an important resource in sharing collections, through which institutions seek to serve users through exchange agreements.
Among the services offered, the following stand out: bibliographic switching, bibliographic survey of specific subjects, cataloging at source, standardization of publications, exchange and donation with more than 1,700 registered national and foreign institutions, loans of publications, training, courses and individual guidance to users.
Opening hours are according to sectors: access to the physical collection, loans and returns in the Circulation Section and the Reservations room are open from Monday to Friday, from 6:30 am to 10:00 pm and on Saturdays from 7 am to 1:00 pm for public service, the UN Library is open from 08:00 am to 5:00 pm and the Catalog Cards sector is open from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, both from Monday to Friday, Catalog sheets can be requested via the internet, 24 hours a day. During the school break, the Library is open to the public from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm from Monday to Friday.
The current organizational structure of the Central Library, implemented since September 2013, comprises: Management, Assistant Management, Library Council, Office Hours Section, Administrative Support Section, Internal Processing Service, Selection and Acquisition Section, Cataloging and Classification Section , Digital Collection Section, Reference and Customer Service, Circulation and Loan Section I – morning, Circulation and Loan Section II – afternoon, Circulation and Loan Section III – evening, In charge of night control. It has 11 (eleven) librarian-documentary employees, approximately 60 (sixty) effective technical administrative employees (various positions), who are responsible for its operation as well as service to users. The cleaning and hygiene service is outsourced.
Protection, security and control of the collection are carried out through user access control with biometric identification turnstiles, barcode readers and keyboards, a monitoring system using 32 cameras and a system with electronic detection gates magnetic that allows the control of entry and exit of materials inside the Building. For more information, see the rules at: http://www.bbt.ufv.br.
Internet access
UFV has a corporate data network – UFVNet – which interconnects more than 150 departments and bodies across the UFV campi, through approximately 37,500 meters of optical fiber. There are approximately 9,000 stations connected via a wired network, 4,000 mobile devices connected to wireless networks, 975 users registered in the Internet voice system – VoIP – and more than 30,000 email accounts. It also has around 100 servers, including corporate applications and databases, which use the Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems.
The institution, through the Department of Information Technology, maintains and modernizes its data infrastructure, following its Information Technology Master Plan – PDTI – which is an instrument for diagnosing, planning and managing Information Technology resources and processes. It provides the integration of solutions and investments for the IT area, seeking to optimize resources and increase efficiency to achieve the institutional objectives.
All rooms that make up the PPGEC infrastructure, as well as the teachers’ rooms, are connected to UFV’s high-speed Internet network, which allows access to national and international databases and the scientific collection made available by CAPES through the CAPES journals platform.