COTUCA - Technical High School of Campinas

COTUCA
Technical High School of Campinas
The history of Cotuca is related to a
stately building located in Campinas,
where it has operated for nearly 50 years
since its founding in 1967. Designed by
the architect Ramos de Azevedo and built
in 1918, the building was donated to the
state by its owner, Campinas councilor,
abolitionist and republican Bento Quirino
dos Santos, who mandated that the site
be allocated for educational activities.
The 6,500-m² building is listed as a
municipal historical patrimony. Its
facilities hosted the early activities of
Unicamp itself simultaneously when
Cotuca began offering its first technical
programs in the Food, Electro-Technical
and Mechanical fields. Shortly
afterwards, the Nursing and Data
Processing programs were created.
The name Cotuca stands for Technical
High School of the University of
Campinas, which was the official name of
the school for many years. It was later
replaced by the name Technical High
School of Campinas. However, the
acronym by which the school is widely
known has been maintained.
Students
1,900
Faculty
104
Staff
65
Cotuca
Rua Jorge de Figueiredo Corrêa, 735
Parque Taquaral | Campinas | SP | Brasil
CEP: 13087-261
Tel: +55 19 3521-9900 | Fax: +55 19 3521-9919
e-mail: contato@cotuca.unicamp.br
The Technical High School of Campinas - Cotuca is one of the
technical education units of Unicamp. Its primary function is to
train future technical professionals through a set of 10 full
programs. Also, Cotuca offers 4 specialization programs. The 14
programs cover 6 major areas: Industry, Information Technology,
Health, Telecommunications, Management and Environment. For
some courses, regular high school education is provided
concomitantly with technical training.
Ranked among the top public technical schools, Cotuca offers
technical programs in Food, Electronics, Nursing, Information
Technology, Internet Information Technology, Mechatronics,
Environment,
Plastics,
Occupational
Safety
and
Telecommunications. For technical specialization, the options are
Industrial Automation, Biomedical Equipment, Quality and
Productivity Management and Computer-Assisted Mechanical
Design. Because the programs regularly offered are free,
admission involves a competitive selection process for the
applicants.
The quality of training provided by Cotuca is evidenced by the
large inclusion of graduates in the labor market and in the best
universities in Brazil. Cotuca also has a tradition of training
excellent interns, who can work in various technological areas of
the market. This tradition is made clear by the many internship
agreements that the school has sign over the years with more
than 1,000 partner companies.
Another highlight of the school is the large number of
extracurricular activities in which the students are directly
involved. With this, Cotuca improves the teaching and learning
process through the interaction of students and teachers with
labor market and technology and science production activities.