The Interunit Graduate Program in Sciences Teaching of the University of São Paulo (PIEC-USP) offers academic stricto sensu courses at Masters (M.S.) and Doctoral (Ph.D.) levels. The program's main purpose is to contribute to the development of scientific education in Brazil, especially focusing on specific fields of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology through the training of excellent human resources to work on Science Teaching Research.
PIEC was created by the Institute of Physics and the Faculty of Education of the University of São Paulo in 1973. Since 1998, the Institute of Chemistry has joined the Program; since 2005, the Bio-Science Institute has also joined.
The Program has been recognized for the quality of the research presented in several conferences and symposiums, for the articles published in indexed journals, for the qualification of its Master students and Ph.D. candidates, and by CAPES (Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement), which has attributed concept 5 to the Program in the last four-year term evaluation (2017-2018-2019-2020).
