The Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering – PPGEE of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS has been developed to educate professionals for the purposes of teaching, research, and development of technological innovations. Focused on Control, Automation and Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Computer and Telecommunication Systems, the Program is intended to meet the needs of both the public and private sectors, thus generating and attracting technological innovations of high aggregate value to the country, in emerging areas of research and development.