Departamento de Engenharia de Produção e Sistemas

Our EPS faculty consists of professors with master’s and doctoral degrees, earned at leading institutions worldwide—including centers of excellence in France, the U.S., Canada, England, Portugal, and Spain—as well as highly respected Brazilian universities like FGV, UFRJ, USP, and UFSC. We’re also supported by a dedicated technical-administrative team for both our undergraduate and graduate programs, with most holding advanced degrees.

The current administrative team at EPS consists of the following faculty members:

• Head of Department: Caroline Rodrigues Vaz
• Deputy Head of Department: Rogério Feroldi Miorando
• Undergraduate Coordinator (Mechanical, Civil, and Electrical Production Engineering Courses): Mônica Maria Mendes Luna
• Undergraduate Deputy Coordinator (Mechanical, Civil, and Electrical Production Engineering Courses): Mauricio Uriona Maldonado
• Undergraduate Coordinator (Full Production Engineering Course): Glauco Garcia Martins Pereira da Silva
• Undergraduate Deputy Coordinator (Full Production Engineering Course): Lynceo Falavigna Braghirolli
• Graduate Coordinator: Enzo Morosini Frazzon
• Graduate Deputy Coordinator: Antonio Cezar Bornia
• Exchange Coordinator: Lynceo Falavigna Braghirolli
• Internship Coordinator: Viviane Grubisic
• Outreach Coordinator: Marco Antonio de Oliveira Vieira Goulart
• Research Coordinator: Gisele Chaves
• Capstone Project (TCC) Coordinator: Lynceo Falavigna Braghirolli

Production Engineering is at the heart of both manufacturing goods and delivering services, encompassing a vast array of applications. We integrate seamlessly with all other engineering disciplines and draw heavily from fields like management, economics, accounting, psychology, computer science, and statistics that shape production systems.

We deploy both qualitative and quantitative methodologies for planning, designing, and implementing production systems. Our core aim is to maximize efficiency by expertly integrating people, materials, and equipment. A hallmark of our work is our commitment to multidisciplinary teamwork and a systemic approach. Our fundamental and ongoing objectives are to enhance the quality of goods and services and to drive increased productivity and competitiveness.

Beyond leveraging proven, traditional tools for optimizing production operations, Production Engineering is actively investing in cutting-edge concepts and methods, notably those emerging from Industry 4.0. Our perspective here is inherently strategic: we see the essence of Industry 4.0 as the genesis of a new business model, applicable across industrial and service sectors alike. This model, while heavily reliant on technological resources, isn’t solely focused on production processes. Instead, it prioritizes novel ways of engaging with consumer markets. Establishing strong connections with consumers and, more broadly, with society, has always been a central tenet of Production Engineering. This inherent focus makes us perfectly aligned with the guiding principles of Industry 4.0.

Production Engineering at UFSC began in 1969 with the creation of the Master’s program at the School of Industrial Engineering, which included concentrations in Industrial Engineering and Production Management. Two years later, the Department of Industrial Engineering was established. By the late 1970s, it received its current name: the Department of Production and Systems Engineering.

In 1972, the graduate program in Industrial Engineering, at the Master’s level, was formalized. In 1978, it was renamed the Graduate Program in Production Engineering.

Undergraduate specializations in Production Engineering within Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering were created at UFSC in 1979.

The doctoral program began to be offered in 1989. From that point on, with both the Master’s and Doctoral programs institutionalized, it became known as the Postgraduate Program in Production Engineering.

The Department of Production and Systems Engineering has since graduated over 2,000 undergraduate students, and boasts over 4,500 master’s dissertations and more than 1,400 doctoral theses.