The Professional Graduate Program in Instrumentation, Control, and Automation of Mining Processes (PROFICAM), carried out under the agreement signed between the Federal University of Ouro Preto and the Vale Institute of Technology – UFOP/ITV, seeks to meet the demands of companies in the mining sector and foster synergy between research, technological development, innovation, production, and industry. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary in nature, it confers on the student the title of Master in Control and Automation Engineering. By providing a broad view of the subject, the course enables students to learn about and develop research and modeling techniques for automation systems; model and carry out experimental research into processes, instrumentation, control, and automation systems; learn about methodologies for simulating mineral processing systems; and instrument and automate mining processes.

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