UTFPR | 27,060 followers on LinkedIn. Federal University of Technology - Paraná (Portuguese: Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, shortened UTFPR), formerly known as Federal Center of Technological Education of Paraná (Portuguese: Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Paraná, shortened CEFET-PR), is a public university with campuses in eleven cities of the Brazilian state of Parana.