The Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (IFPI), a federal agency linked to the Ministry of Education (MEC), through the Secretariat of Professional and Technological Education (SETEC), is an educational institution created in December 2008 from the transformation of the Federal Center of Technological Education of Piauí (CEFET-PI), formerly the Federal Technical School of Piauí (ETFPI). The organizational structure of the Federal Institute of Piauí, created by Law 11.892 of December 2008, has five pro-rectories: Pro-rectory of Administration, Pro-rectory of Education, Pro-rectory of Institutional Development, Pro-rectory of Extension and Pro-rectory of Research and Innovation. IFPI is an institution that offers basic, professional and higher education, in a multicurricular format. It is a multi-campus institution, specialized in offering professional and technological education in different teaching modalities, based on the combination of technical and technological knowledge with its pedagogical practices.

The IFPI, 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 IFPI. 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.