5 Automation Course Programs

Are you interested in the latest technologies and software – and in working within a challenging field that is constantly developing? Earn a master's degree with a unique combination of specialisations: AI and automation. We focus on applied learning, so you’ll get a lot of hands-on work in an industry-like environment in addition to your academic learning.

The automation of production activities, whether in agriculture, industry or in the service sector, is one of the main requirements for the economic development of the country and for its effective participation in the international market. The need for qualified professionals that have an interdisciplinary vision – indispensible to the automation processes – , and are able to use the new computer technologies adequately has led UFSC to create the pioneer Automation and Control Engineering program in 1990.

The Cognitive Automation and Its Impacts on Skill Erosion of Individuals Master Class will demonstrate how increasing reliance on automation fosters complacency at both individual and organizational levels, weakening workers’ mindfulness across three work task facets (activity awareness, competence maintenance, and output assessment), resulting in skill erosion. Such erosion of skills may go unnoticed and unacknowledged by both workers and managers.

The Specialization Course in Credit Cooperatives with Solidarity Interaction is organized by Cresol Central SC / RS, through Cresol Aprende in partnership with IFIBE, which is responsible for its coordination and academic certification. The objective of the course is to qualify the credit cooperative action of the agents of the Cresol SC / RS System by preparing managers through the analysis of concepts and practices of credit cooperatives with solidary interaction in order to advance in strengthening the accomplishment of the mission of Cresol Central SC /LOL. The Specialization Course meets the requirements of Resolution CNE / CES nº 01/2007, which establishes the requirements for offering a lato sensu postgraduate course. This is a lato sensu postgraduate course in the face-to-face modality, with a “closed class” [in the company ] formed by students who graduated in various areas of knowledge who work in one of the instances that form part of Cresol Central SC / RS [students accepted with completed elementary or high school, in which case they will be certified as an in-depth course].

Carrying out IT security analyses of vehicle systems poses completely new challenges for developers and testers. Unlike classic safety tests, security problems here are unexpected and hard to foresee. They are exploited by unpredictable and intelligent attackers. A systematic approach is necessary in order to obtain a comprehensive and meaningful assessment of IT security within a limited testing period.