PPGCEM Thesis Receives Honorable Mention in the 2024 CAPES Thesis Award

    The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) released the preliminary results of the 2025 Capes Thesis Award, with the best theses defended in 2024. UFSCar was awarded one awards and two honorable mentions. The Award was granted to the thesis "FRACTURE OF REFRACTORIES AT ROOM AND ELEVATED TEMPERATURES ANALYZED WITH WEDGE SPLITTING TESTS AND IMAGE CORRELATION", from the Engineering II area, and authored by Rafael Vargas Maginador. Developed in the Graduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering (PPGCEM), it was supervised by Rodrigo Bresciani Canto, professor at the Department of Materials Engineering (DEMa).

         The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) released the preliminary results of the 2025 Capes Thesis Award, with the best theses defended in 2024. UFSCar was awarded one awards and two honorable mentions.

         The Award was granted to the thesis "FRACTURE OF REFRACTORIES AT ROOM AND ELEVATED TEMPERATURES ANALYZED WITH WEDGE SPLITTING TESTS AND IMAGE CORRELATION", from the Engineering II area, and authored by Rafael Vargas Maginador.

         Developed in the Graduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering (PPGCEM), it was supervised by Rodrigo Bresciani Canto, professor at the Department of Materials Engineering (DEMa).

         The full list with the preliminary results of the 2024 Capes Thesis Award can be found here.

         PPGCEM congratulates the award winners.