Targino de Araújo Filho

Targino de Araujo Filho has its undergraduate, Masters and PhD Degrees in Production Engineering, he is a professor at UFSCar since 1979, and is now a full professor. He was a Productivity Scholar at CNPq (1995-2000) working with the 'soft' approach of Operational Research and Research-Action methodology. He was President of the Brazilian Association of Production Engineering (1996-1997) and Pro-Rector of Extension of UFSCar for two terms (1996-2004). During this period he was President and Vice-President of the Forum of Pro-Rectors of Extension of the Brazilian Public Universities (2000 to 2002). From the involvement with the university extension, it also began to work on topics related to university management, science and technology policy and its relationship with society. He was Rector of UFSCar for two years (2008-2016) and during this period he had a strong presence in the National Association of Directors of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (ANDIFES), having been its vice president and president (2013-2015) and presided over his Committee on International Relations for three terms. He was also President of the Association of Universities Grupo Montevideo (AUGM), for two terms (2011-2013), when he became involved with the creation of the Latin American and Caribbean Area of Higher Education (ENLACES). Currently, with the support of CAPES, he holds a Senior Internship in which he discusses the Internationalization of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, and until June 2015 at NAFSA (Association of International Educators) in Washington, DC, and then through February 2018, at the Center for Higher Education Internationalization of the SacroCuore Catholic University of Milan (Source: Lattes Curriculum)