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This article aims to discuss the expansion process of higher education in the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíaba (IFPB) [Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Paraíba] (IFPB), narrowing the analysis in the three biggest campi (João Pessoa, Campina Grande e Sousa). To make the thematic analysis viable, the research was based on information extracted from official documents from the period of 2008 to 2015, combined with data available on the institution's website. The conclusion was that the expansion movement on IFPB (the growth of campi's numbers) granted the achievement of the goals established in 2005, 2010 and 2015's Institutional Development Plan. Thus, it enabled a 600% raise from the period of 2005 to 2015, also, it provided access to professional education on the inland of Paraíba. The expansion movement of IFPB's higher education system, despite following the logic of the new modernization standard for Higher Education included in the new paradigm of neoliberal capitalist production - which encourages the adoption of managerial mechanisms and partnerships with private companies - brought elements of social reach, as it allowed a great expansion on the offer of higher education courses to sectors historically excluded from that educational level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the city growth and consequently to the increasing number of the traffic signals, a scientific approach is necessary to establish the synchronization among them. Synchronization means the relative phase of signals of a region such that, the fraction of the green and red time of a cycle are such that, a driver has uninterrupted flow traffic throughout a main arterial. The portion of the cycle for which this is possible is called bandwidth. The main goal of this work is to develop a computational mathematical model to synchronize traffic signals so that the bandwidth can be as big as possible throughout the most important avenues. Such model is being developed specifically to Curitiba traffic network. Such approach implies in saving money and time, improving the quality of life and making the streets safer. This model is based on the works of (LITTLE,1966) and (GARTNER,1981), about mixed integer linear programming and contains restrictions of cycles, speed, changing speed among signals, protecting left-turn movements and considering the time to wait at the signals platoons. Some tests are being done at sub areas in Curitiba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]