Introduction

The Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (Cefet/RJ) had its origin in 1917 as the Normal School of Arts and Crafts Wenceslau Braz. Currently, it is a federal teaching institution that understands itself as a public space for human, scientific and technological formation. It offers technical courses integrated to the secondary, post-secondary, technological, graduate and post-graduate courses lato sensu and stricto sensu (Master and Doctorate), in both face-to-face and distance modalities. Cefet/RJ operates in the teaching, research and extension triad and aims at contributing to the training of well-prepared professionals for the economic and social development of mesoregions in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Since the expansion of the federal network of technical and technological education, the institution has been counting with its headquarters at Maracanã campus and seven other campi spread throughout the state of Rio de Janeiro: Angra dos Reis, Itaguaí, Maria da Graça, Nova Friburgo, Nova Iguaçu, Petrópolis and Valença.