Located in Rio de Janeiro, the city that was the capital of the Republic until 1960, the institution now called Cefet/RJ had this vocation defined since 1917, when the Wenceslau Braz Normal School of Arts and Crafts was created by the municipality of the then Federal District, and was given the responsibility of training teachers, masters, and foremen for vocational education. Having passed, in 1919, to the jurisdiction of the federal government and with the restructuring, in 1937, of the structure of the then Ministry of Education, this Normal School was transformed into a lyceum intended for vocational education of all branches and levels, as happened to the aforementioned Schools of Apprentice Artisans, which were maintained by the Union.

The CEFET-RJ, through the national contract between CAPES and IEEE has an unlimited open access agreement with IEEE that enables researchers to publish articles as open access without open access fees in all IEEE fully and hybrid open access journals. The agreement applies to all original research articles accepted for publication between 5 November 2024 – 30 October 2027. To benefit from this agreement, the corresponding author has to be affiliated with CEFET-RJ. Please use the correct institution name and your institutional email address during submi​​ssion. It is recommended for authors to select the CC BY 4.0 license. The open access funding request will be approved by an OA administrator at CAPES. Overlength page charges or color fees are not covered by the agreement and will be charged to authors.