Inatel
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|name = Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações
|motto = Construir para a Engenharia Humana (Portuguese)
|mottoeng = Train Humanity in Engineering
|established = 1965
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|city = Santa Rita do Sapucaí
|province = Minas Gerais
|country = Brazil
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|president = Marcelo de Oliveira Marques
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|campus = Urban, 75,000 m2
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|website = http://www.inatel.br
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Inatel is short for Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações, the National Institute of Communications of Brazil. The Institute is located on a 75,000 m2 campus in Santa Rita do Sapucaí in southern Minas Gerais. Founded in 1965, it specializes in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications education and research.
As of 2007, Inatel's monthly tuition was 950 reais, and about 5,000 students had graduated from the school.{{Cite web|url=http://www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/176-february-2007/9820.html|title=How Education and Hard Work Built Up Brazil's Silicon Valley|accessdate=October 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612111606/http://www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/176-february-2007/9820.html|archive-date=June 12, 2011|url-status=dead}}
The Institute sponsors the biennial International Workshop on Telecommunications held in odd-numbered years in Rio de Janeiro.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bg.ac.rs/eng/en_newss.php?id=62|title=University of Belgrade > News > IWT - International Workshop on Telecommunications|accessdate=October 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018072206/http://www.bg.ac.rs/eng/en_newss.php?id=62|archive-date=October 18, 2010|url-status=dead}}
Researchers at Inatel publish and review technical papers for international conferences.{{Cite book
| editor-last = de Souza
| editor-first = José Neuman
| others = Petre Dini and Pascal Lorenz
| title = Telecommunications and Networking—ICT 2004
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8Dm7ct1BS7wC&q=Inatel%20Brazil&pg=PP1
| accessdate = October 26, 2010
| year = 2004
| publisher = Springer Science+Business Media
| location = Berlin
| isbn = 978-3-540-22571-3
| pages = viii, 82, 312
}}
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.inatel.br/}}
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Category:Educational institutions established in 1965
Category:Engineering research institutes
Category:1965 establishments in Brazil
Category:Universities and colleges in Minas Gerais