Graduate education started in Brazil in 1961. In these 50 years the range and importance of this initiative and its influence on the Brazilian Universities, both for research and for teaching, are enormous. The Doctorate as it occurs nowadays in Brazil started in 1969, almost as an artisan's work, due to the lack of experience in doing research in our country at that time, and gradually started to grow. A highly successful maturing and growing process occurred in the last 20 years. We may say that nowadays we have mature researchers and Graduate Programs in the most varied areas and Brazilian Universities, in spite of our science and our engineering are still far away from the ones the best world centers do. In parallel and because of such a process, various scientific societies and/or conferences were being created and consolidated. In this paper I present some memories and reflections about this process emphasizing my working area as Professor and Researcher: Control of Dynamic Systems and in my life experience.
Control; dynamic systems; history