Concentration area
The new proposal not only expanded the scope of the Graduate Program in Metrology, but also introduced improvements related to its management structure. It also presented solutions for identified vulnerabilities.
Thus, the title and concentration area of the Program were redefined, signaling a better definition of its scope to incorporate the new demands in metrology (metrology in health, chemical metrology, environment, agriculture, trade, business, etc.), opposing the original name, excessively focused on the needs of the industry. In the new configuration proposed, the title of the Program became “Graduate Program in Metrology”, thus preserving its generality, and the name of the concentration area (formerly called “Metrology for Industrial Quality”) became “Metrology for Quality and Innovation” (preserving the acronym already consecrated, remained the “I” of “Industrial” that began to denote “INNOVATION”, signaling the program’s new most comprehensive philosophy). This proposition also solved (i) inaccuracies and incompatibilities between the names attributed by CAPES and PUC-Rio and (ii) impropriety in the name of the concentration area approved by CAPES, which today calls it simply “metrology”, which, in fact, refers to the area of knowledge.