EMPLOYMENT MARKET

The employment market for electrical engineering includes all firms whose activities are related to electricity, especially state-owned and private electricity generation, transmission and distribution companies, telecommunication service providers, companies that install or develop automated systems, research centers and companies that produce electrical, telecommunications and computer equipment and systems, consultancies and government agencies. 

The Department of Electrical Engineering at PUC-Rio has over 20 laboratories where research is conducted by our professors and where undergraduate students can get involved through undergraduate research projects, end-of-course assignments or supervised studies, or by participating in projects developed in conjunction with state-owned or private companies or financed by research funding agencies (CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, etc.).