Students

Abstract

This presentation showed the students’ vision of the post-graduation program. The students were interviewed about their motivations to study and their plans for the future. In general lines, they listed three main motivations to start their studies at CRPq: a wish to improve their CVs, in order to gain general experience and/or increase financial earnings; a desire to become a researcher, in order to achieve personal fulfillment and to produce knowledge; and a desire to become a professor, in order to achieve personal fulfillment and to help in the development of other people. In all cases, the chance to start a new career and to get a job or a better job position were important motivations too. In this sense, the students’ plans for the future are related mainly to the continuation of studies/researches and to their admission in job positions at industries, labs and/or educational institutions. A research was made in order to know the current occupations of ex-students too. Many of them are teachers or professors, at public and private institutions, and some are working at industries and labs, as managers or technicians. Also important, some of them are researchers, working at IPEN itself or other research facilities, in Brazil or abroad. In general, the students like working at CRPq, mainly because of the good relationships developed among students and professors/researchers, despite of some operational issues in day-to-day work.