Percepção das contribuições da empresa júnior para a formação do profissional de Engenharia Ambiental.

Abstract

During the bachelor, students can participate in various types of experience, such as scientific initiation researches, extension projects, and teaching initiation projects on certain disciplines. Among those projects are the junior enterprises, which are gaining strength in recent years. These entities seek to empower students and bring them into contact with the market, through the provision of services and business experience. In this context, the present work has the objective of collecting the members and alumni perceptions regarding their experience in the Junior Enterprise (JE) of Environmental Engineering of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Ciclo Jr. In addition, it is also possible to measure the importance of JE to the formation of an Environmental Engineering professional. In this way, the method for data collection was the application of questionnaires. Two questionnaires were constructed: one for the group of members and another for the group of alumni. The research had questions related to the experience in the junior enterprise itself, the skills developed and the satisfaction with its passage among others. It was verified that the experience was and is being of great value to the interviewees, mainly in relation to the practical application of the contents seen in the classroom and in relation to obtaining a higher qualification for the first job. Finally, a thorough discussion of the questions was carried out, based on comparisons with data from other researches by Federal University of Ceará (UFC), and the Endeavor Institute, which has international recognition in the theme of entrepreneurship. In this way, suggestions for future actions were generated to the creation of an entrepreneurship discipline in the Environmental Engineering course, aiming to complement the experience in JE and so that all students can have a more effective sensitization on the subject.