{"id":21384,"date":"2021-04-13T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T13:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.institutosantosdumont.org.br\/?p=21384"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:07:21","slug":"pordentrodoisd-em-quanto-tempo-se-formam-e-para-onde-vao-os-mestres-em-neuroengenharia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/institutosantosdumont.org.br\/en\/pordentrodoisd-em-quanto-tempo-se-formam-e-para-onde-vao-os-mestres-em-neuroengenharia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#PorDentrodoISD: How long does it take to graduate and where do Masters in Neuroengineering go?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amidst people with Covid-19 in two public hospitals in Natal, the routine of physical therapist Val\u00e9ria Azevedo from Rio Grande do Norte is divided between choosing the appropriate device to provide oxygen in the beds, participating in intubation and extubation procedures \u2013 that is, inserting or removing a tube or probe through the nose or mouth of patients \u2013 preparing artificial ventilators and techniques to improve the respiratory function of those fighting for their lives. A job, she says, that is full of challenges.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cWe, physiotherapists, are part of the multidisciplinary monitoring required for Covid patients, as it is a disease with multiple symptoms and effects. I am an intensive care physiotherapist and I work on shifts. It is not easy at all,\u201d she observes, who is now preparing for another challenge in her career: starting her doctorate.<\/span><\/p>

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Val\u00e9ria is from Currais Novos, in Rio Grande do Norte, and is one of the faces behind the indicators and goals of the Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) evaluated by the Ministry of Education (MEC) \u2013 and detailed from this Monday (12) in the series of reports #PorDentroDoISD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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The Institute's 2020 Annual Report, which brings together the results achieved <\/span>in 13 quality indicators involving areas such as education, scientific production and management, <\/span>will be presented on April 26 to the Ministry's Management Contract Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (CAA). <\/span>Click here to access the full report.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>

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The MEC has financed the ISD's activities since 2014 and the CAA is responsible for supervising, monitoring and evaluating the Institute's performance, in accordance with the goals and indicators agreed upon in this contract.<\/span><\/p>

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The ISD Annual Report, which brings together the results obtained by the Institute in 2020, will be evaluated by the Commission later this month.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

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Master's in Neuroengineering<\/b><\/p>

Val\u00e9ria, mentioned at the beginning of the report, helps to compose one of the indicators related to 2020 that will be analyzed: the \u201cMaster's Success Index\u201d, which evaluates the time taken for students to complete the Master's Program. Postgraduate in Neuroengineering<\/a> of Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience<\/a> (IIN-ELS), from ISD \u2013 the only one in Brazil approved by Capes in this area of knowledge. Val\u00e9ria completed the course in 23 months. The average time recorded by students was 24.9.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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In the record made in 2020, Val\u00e9ria is one of the students who took part in the production of more than a thousand shield masks donated by ISD to health units in Rio Grande do Norte and Para\u00edba.
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It also portrays the multiple paths that professionals trained with a Master's degree in Neuroengineering by the Institute have followed in the market.<\/span><\/p>

Regarding the Master's Degree Success Rate, of the 15 ISD master's students expected to graduate in 2020, 9 defended their dissertations within the regular course deadline of up to two years. On average, it took 24.9 months for students to defend their dissertations, since data collection for master's degree research was interrupted due to the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

With this result, the Institute achieved 70.6% of the target established for the year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The research coordinator and manager of the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience, Edgard Morya, explains that the pandemic delayed the completion of some work and that this ended up being reflected in the indicator at a time of extreme need.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u201cWe had some changes in the deadlines (for dissertation defenses) for the master\u2019s degree, but they didn\u2019t have such a big impact when compared to other institutions. We had to give students a little more time to finish, so as not to put their health at risk,\u201d he explained during the presentation of the results achieved in 2020 to the ISD Board of Directors on February 24. The Board of Directors is the Institute\u2019s highest decision-making body and brings together representatives from the MEC and other government ministries and entities from areas such as science, education, health and industry. The members must approve the ISD\u2019s annual report before it is submitted to the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Education\u2019s Management Contract.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Institute surpasses the rate of success of former students in the job market<\/b><\/p>

Another indicator analyzed by this Commission, the Graduate Performance Index for the Master's Degree in Neuroengineering, reveals that in 2020 the ISD exceeded its target in this field, with all students who graduated from the Institute employed in different areas of the job market during the period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The Institute's Annual Report shows that the 19 masters in Neuroengineering graduated in 2019 were active in the market in 2020. Of these, 15 (79%) worked in academia as teachers or students; 3 (15.7%) were in the market as consultants or in other activities and 1 (5.3%) became a researcher.<\/span><\/p>

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Click here<\/a> and check the complete list of students that make up the index.\u00a0<\/p>

For Edgard Morya, the result is positive not only in terms of achieving a target, but also because the Institute is training qualified professionals. \u201cWe had a very good result in this indicator in 2020. We exceeded the target, but the idea is not to focus only on the target. The idea is to focus on how much the Institute can do to ensure that students have something positive in their professional careers, on how we are helping them to evolve. Many students are leaving the Institute and going to other countries, to other large universities in Brazil, and\/or contributing to the market. This is a very positive result,\u201d he said, also during the presentation of the results to the ISD Board of Directors in February.<\/span><\/p>

Future doctors<\/b><\/p>

A survey carried out by the ISD Academic Secretariat shows that 14 masters in Neuroengineering graduated by the Institute between 2018 and 2020 were approved in doctoral programs inside or outside Brazil in the period between January 2020 and March 2021.<\/span><\/p>

These are Masters in Neuroengineering who are spread across institutions such as the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Federal University of Uberl\u00e2ndia (UFU), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), University of Stuttgart, in Germany, and Florida International University, in the United States. Physiotherapy, Neuroscience, Psychobiology and Electrical Engineering are some of the areas in which these students who graduated from the Master's program are pursuing in academia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cIt is very interesting to see the students we have worked with for two years gaining ground in other places. This ends up being an achievement for us as well and it reveals not only the quality of the Master\u2019s degree, but the diversity of areas that a Neuroengineer can pursue in their career,\u201d declared the coordinator of the Master\u2019s degree in Neuroengineering and professor-researcher at IIN-ELS, Fabr\u00edcio Brasil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Val\u00e9ria, a physiotherapist and neuroengineer who is strengthening the fight against Covid-19 in Rio Grande do Norte, received her master's degree in 2020 and was approved for a doctorate in Physiotherapy at UFRN in early 2021. This was the most recent of the 14 candidates approved in doctorate programs in Brazil and abroad since last year. In the reports that the ISD presents to the MEC, she will be included in the Graduate Performance Index for 2021, whose performance will be evaluated next year.<\/span><\/p>

For her, the experience in the Master's in Neuroengineering enabled an exchange of knowledge between various specialties and was fundamental for the work she carries out today on the front line against Covid-19 and beyond this field.<\/span><\/p>

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