Increase in the number of CNPq productivity grant recipients from two to seven: Electo Eduardo Silva Lora, Osvaldo Jose Venturini, Geraldo Lucio Tiago, Edson Bortoni, Regina Mambeli, Jose Carlos Escobar Palacio, and Arcilan Trevenzzoli Assireu. Details of the grants follow:

1 – Electo Eduardo Silva Lora

Process: 311481/2014-0

Category: 1B

Period: 03/2015 – 03/2019

Theme: Development of technology for the energy conversion of biomass.

2 – Osvaldo José Venturini

Process: 311385/2014-1

Category: 2

Period: 03/2015 – 02/2018

Theme: Theoretical-experimental development of technologies for the solar thermal generation of electricity.

3 – Geraldo Lucio Tiago

Process Number: 305397;2012-5

Category: 2

Period: 2013-2015

Topic: Study on the use of Wells-type turbine rotors in tidal power plants.

4 – Edson da Costa Bortoni

Process Number: 305342/2013-2

Category: 2

Period: 03/2015 – 02/2018

Topic: Modeling of asynchronous machines aiming at the fidelity of rotor quantities.

5 – Jose Carlos Escobar Palacio

Process Number: 310674/2015-8

Category: 2

Period: 03/2016 – 02/2019

Topic: Technical, Economic and Sustainability Evaluation of Different Advanced Conversion Technologies.

6 – Regina Mambeli Barros

Process Number: 301986/2015-0

Category: 2

Period: 03/2015 – 02/2018

Topic: Evaluation of biogas production through the simulation of a pilot-scale sanitary landfill cell.

7 – Arcilan Trevenzzoli Assireu

Process: 311840/2018-3

Category: 2

Period: 03/2019 – 03/2022

Theme: Planetary boundary layer in the land-water transition region: social implications, for wind energy use and for water quality

The h-index of the professors who make up the PPGEEN follows:

• Edson da Costa Bortoni – 11
• Geraldo Lucio Tiago Filho – 10
• Jamil Haddad – 6
• Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira – 13
• Jose Carlos Escobar Palacio – 11
• Fernando Braga da Silva – 6
• Vladimir Melian Cobas – 10
• Regina Mambeli Barros – 11
• Roberto Akira Yamachita – 2
• Maria Luiza Grillo Renno – 7
• Osvaldo Jose Venturini – 14
• Diego Yepes Maya – 2
• Electo Eduardo Silva Lora – 29
• Arcilan Trevenzzoli Assireu – 11
• Rubenildo Vieira Andrade – 10
• Daniele Ornaghi Santana – 2
• Thais Suzane Milessi Esteves – 7
• Juan José Garcia Pavon – 8

The average h-index value is 9.4 and the h2 index is 10.
In March 2020, a study of the destination of graduates was carried out:

Of the total of 296 graduates, information was not obtained for 30 of them.
The results are as follows:

University professors: 27.8%
Prof. From High Schools: 3.7%
Business Owners: 5.8%
Company Employees: 21.3%
Employees of Organizations and Institutions: 8.6%
Self-Employed: 8.4%
Doctoral Students: 15%

Of the graduates, 17.5% continued and completed their doctoral studies. Considering also those who are currently doctoral students, we have 32.5% of the total who continued their academic careers.

Therefore, the two main destinations for our graduates are academic careers and the business sector, comprised of companies and institutions in the energy sector.

Number of defenses per year:

• 2010 – 6
• 2011 – 11
• 2012 – 14
• 2013 – 17
• 2014 – 13
• 2015 – 24
• 2016 – 18
• 2017 – 17
• 2018 – 20
• 2019 – 26
• 2020 – 12