My lectures are mainly focused either on signal processing and its application (in particular to digital communication and biomedics). When I joined my institution it was a Federal Center for Technological Education with actuation in the entirity of our state CEFET-RS was a part of a Network of federal institutions (Federal Network of Technological Education) that was created to help brazilian industrializatuion and was over a hundred years old.
Design of Digital Sytems
In our course we kept the focus on being one of the best Electrical Engineering degrees in the country, but naturally this large amount of changes impacted (and not positively) on our research. We managed to build a good relationship with the Local Technological Clusters (our labs were founding members in the Health Industry Local Cluster and participated in projects with the Naval Industrial Cluster) and we worked on a lot of applied research .
I have somethings to say about orientation and recommentadion letters.
Since 2008 there was a huge shift in the government policies regarding technological education on its own federal network. The old CEFET-RS was dissolved and three new institutions where created in our state the Federal Institutes for Educatioin, Science and Technology. This happened in every state countrywide.
Our mission also changed dramatically to vocational (no longer technological) education with a strong focus on High School level education and teacher formation. We now have degrees in management, farming and education, things that were never before our mission.
I sometimes talk about these issues and other in tecnhology and society on some articles.
I moved to the southern part of my state to help the develop the Engineering education; Back then it was one of the larger institutions on the network that still lagged behind on offeing those courses (they began for most CEFETs in the seventies). As such I helped create the first public (and as such free) Degree in Electrical Engineering and related areas in the entire region (and actually the third one in the enitirity of our 11 milion people state). It was also one of the first in the country to offer classes entirely at night to better suit worker students.
There is a lot more about it on the Course Webpage
I am a professor of Electrical Engineering in the Federal Institute of Technology Science and Education - IF Sul-rio-grandense, located at the extreme south of Brazil. My research work is mainly focused on digital signal processing in communication and biomedical applications.
Most of the specific material for my classes is on Moodle (general link to the site.). Here you will find. hoewever, as of 2025/2, some of the general information of the sillabus.
2020-25 this site was pretty much abbandoned as I moved to Moodle. Its back by student demand, but I am still updating things, so... when in doubt Moodle is up-to-date.