The UFPA’s Postgraduate Program in Chemical Engineering (PPGEQ) was created in 1991 as the Master's Course in Chemical Engineering (CMEQ) through Resolution No. 1953/91 of CONSEP/UFPA of 11/01/91. It was recommended by CAPES on 11/22/91 and began its activities in March 1992. Currently 47 students are enrolled and it is composed by 16 professors, 14 of whom are permanent and the other 02 associate professors, who assist in offering disciplines and guiding dissertations.
PPGEQ is structured in the “Process Development” concentration area, with research being developed that focuses on solving problems in the Amazon Region, distributed in two lines of research:
a) Organic Process Engineering and
b) Inorganic Process Engineering.
With an emphasis on the themes: separation processes, applied thermodynamics, transformation of vegetable oils, environmental control, process modeling and simulation, natural products and biotechnological processes process engineering.
To this end, the Program aims to train researchers and professors for higher education levels in the Amazon Region with an emphasis on training professionals in Chemical Engineering and related areas, aiming to meet the demand for high-level technicians to work in research centers, private companies , projects and studies related to the course's area of concentration and lines of research, contributing to the expansion and consolidation of Fundamental and Applied Research, stimulating and promoting creativity, innovative capacity and talent through the Development of Processes, Technologies/ Products and Technological Innovation focused on solving regional problems and taking advantage of the Amazon's Natural Resources.