Distance Education Department
The Distance Education Department has a team that provides educational, technological, and learning-material development support to professors, tutors, and students, both online and in person. Feevale University provides its undergraduate and graduate programs with the Blackboard Learn e-learning platform.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio Rosa, sala 215
Construction Techniques Laboratory
The facility has heavy machinery for preparing materials used on construction sites (ovens, radiation sources for resin curing, concrete mixers, laser measuring tapes, drills, screwdrivers, and grinders), a water bath with a circulating pump, scales, an EMIC hydraulic press, a mechanical mortar mixer, an electric motor with a vibrator, a masonry saw, a Solotest Vicat apparatus for cement testing, a flow table for consistency measurements, a vacuum pump, desiccators, water-retention testing equipment, expansion and shrinkage comparators, specimen grinding equipment, a hydraulic press, a hydrostatic weighing table, a sieve shaker, various mortar and concrete molds, tensile and flexural testing devices, among others.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio Arenito, sala 007A
Biopolymers Laboratory
The main equipment in this laboratory includes a moisture analyzer and a portable refractometer. The laboratory primarily conducts tests involving fruit coatings made from biodegradable polymer membranes.
Location: CTL, sala 205
Clean Technologies Research and Development Center
The Clean Technologies Research and Development Center comprises nine high-technology laboratories dedicated to the research and development of environmentally relevant materials and processes. All laboratories are affiliated with the Instituto de Ciências Criativas e Tecnológicas and the Graduate Program in Materials Technology and Industrial Processes. The facility also includes a faculty room, an administrative office, and a study room for undergraduate research, master’s, and doctoral scholarship holders.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio CTL
Polymer Technology Laboratory
This laboratory works with biodegradable polymers; polymeric biomaterials for medical, dental, and veterinary applications; nanowaste; material degradation (in vitro and under weathering conditions); environmental education; and municipal solid waste. Its equipment includes a vacuum oven, water deionizer, sieve shaker, water bath, forced-air oven, centrifuge, bacteriological incubator, and rotary evaporator.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio CTL, sala 210
Leather Processing Laboratory
The main equipment includes tanning drums, an oven, a semi-analytical balance, magnetic stirrers, a refrigerator, and a Hach digital multiparameter meter. Activities include hide tanning and leather finishing processes, water reuse, and adjustments to tanning processes to reduce costs and improve raw-material processing results.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio CTL, sala 102
Aquário Laboratory
This laboratory develops Materials Engineering projects focused on polymer applications, especially polymer membranes used in energy generation and wastewater treatment. In Sanitary Engineering, it develops and applies technologies and processes for treating municipal and industrial wastewater (physicochemical treatment, activated sludge, constructed wetlands, membrane separation processes, and advanced oxidation processes). Its research also uses geospatial monitoring to assess water resources by relating demographic factors to changes in water quality across river basins (Rio dos Sinos, Rio Caí, Rio Gravataí, and the metropolitan delta), among other activities.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio CTL
Polymer Synthesis and Membrane Preparation Laboratory
The laboratory develops Materials Engineering projects focused on polymer synthesis and modification, mainly preparing polymeric materials used as membranes for clean electricity generation and wastewater treatment. For clean energy production, it modifies polymers suitable for membrane preparation to improve fuel-cell performance and reduce costs. For wastewater treatment, it modifies polymers to manufacture membranes for large-scale electrodialysis.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio CTL, salas 207, 208 e 209
Advanced Materials Studies Laboratory
The Advanced Materials Studies Laboratory develops and characterizes materials for research, teaching, and community outreach. It has an excellent analytical facility with approximately 20 different techniques, including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), surface area analysis (BET), dynamic light scattering (DLS), colorimetry, ultraviolet-visible and infrared spectroscopy (UV-Vis and FT-IR UATR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), among others. The laboratory currently supports projects involving polymers, nanoparticles, biocompatible materials, metallic coatings, and construction materials, among other fields.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio Azul, subsolo 001
Analytical Center
The services support the needs of individuals, companies, and public institutions. Serving industry and the community, the Analytical Center tests drinking water, surface water, groundwater, and wastewater samples. The unit includes Environmental Analysis, Atomic Absorption, Ion Chromatography, and Microbiology laboratories.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio Verde, sala 100
Computational Analysis Laboratory
This laboratory has modern infrastructure for data and image analysis to support university projects with high computational requirements, such as geoprocessing, environmental diagnostics and impact assessments, natural disasters, and watershed scenario analysis and modeling. It has high-performance computers, a server, workstations, specialized statistical and GIS software (SPSS, R, IDRIZI, ArcGIS), GPS equipment, and a three-dimensional watershed modeling mock-up.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio CTL, sala 206
Materials Recycling Laboratory
The facility covers 79.98 m² and includes an injection molding machine, extruder, mills, dynamometer, magnetic separator, micronizer, rolling mill, pelletizer, agglomerator, industrial shredder, oven, balance, Shore A and D hardness testers, and a flammability testing machine. It is used to process polymeric materials, develop and process new polymer materials, and provide services to the university and the wider community.
Location: Câmpus II, Oficina Tecnológica, sala 107
Computer Laboratory
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Renewable Energy Laboratory
The laboratory has the following equipment: one horizontal-axis wind turbine rated at 1; two horizontal-axis wind turbines rated at 2.5 (one entirely developed at Feevale University); one vertical-axis wind turbine rated at 1.5 kW; a solar panel system (22 modules of 250 W each); a solar tracker with four 140 W modules; two flexible 60 W solar films; three 80 W solar modules entirely developed at the University using imported cells; a 5.5 kW biomethane combustion generator (output limited to 3 kW); a mini weather station measuring solar irradiance, wind speed, air temperature, and humidity; and an integrated hybrid-system controller for generating electricity from renewable sources (solar, wind, and biomass), among others.
Location: Câmpus II, prédio Verde, sala 309-B
Powder Metallurgy and Magnetic Materials Laboratory
The laboratory has the following equipment: a 200-ton semi-automated mechanical press; a 40-ton semi-automated mechanical press; a vacuum furnace operating up to 1,500 degrees; a controlled-atmosphere furnace operating up to 1,250 degrees; a ball mill; an attritor mill; an injection-feedstock mixer; a precision balance; a permanent-magnet magnetizer; and a 7.5 kW combustion generator capable of operating on LPG, CNG, and biomethane (entirely developed at Feevale University).
