The beginning of Coppetec

Coppetec was set up within Coppe in order to administer agreements and contracts with companies, public and private agencies and both domestic and foreign non-governmental organizations.

Coppe / Petrobras Partnership

This partnership was the first major agreement between a university (UFRJ) and a state company. It marked the beginning of joint research into oil and related matters.

Technology-based Business Incubator

The Coppe incubator is especially designed to stimulate the setting up of new businesses based on technological knowledge developed by research groups at UFRJ.

A benchmark

Coppe celebrated its thousandth project in partnership with Petrobras.

LAQ

The Chemical Analysis Laboratory (LAQ) was the result of a partnership between Coppe and Cenpes (Petrobras R&D). The lab launched tests for the characterization of petroleum products.

LAQ was the embryo for Coppecomb.

Expanding Horizons

LAQ established new tests for the characterization of biofuels.

Research activities

LAQ began joint research projects with the Transportation Engineering Program (PET) and the International Virtual Institute of Global Change (IVIG), as well as other Coppe programs.

The Birth of coppecomb

ComDue to the successful ongoing projects of LAQ (Chemical Analysis Laboratory), Cenpes (Petrobras Research Center) renewed its partnership with PEQ (Chemical Engineering Program) and invested in setting up new laboratories to create coppecomb.

International cooperation: China - Brazil

Sponsored by FINEP, the Brazilian Innovation Agency, the Brazil-China Center began its activities in January 2009. The China – Brazil Center for Climate Change and Energy Technology Innovation is a technological and academic cooperation between Coppe/UFRJ — which is the major engineering research center in Latin America — and Tsinghua University, which is the most important Chinese university in the field of engineering. The Center has an office at Tsinghua University, in Beijing, where the activities are coordinated and from where contacts are established with the Chinese and Brazilian companies interested in the technologies developed by the two countries.

2011

O COPPEComb e a Universidade de Tsinghua, através do Centro China Brasil assinam um acordo tecnológico, no qual serão desenvolvidos em conjunto projetos na area de bioenergia.

Coppe / PEQ - 50 years

On its 50^th anniversary PEQ once again received the maximum classification CAPES¹. The Chemical Engineering Program has always been awarded the maximum evaluation by CAPES¹.

¹ Coordenação de aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de nível superior