Proposta de melhorias nos cursos de graduação em engenharia por meio de uma aplicação de um framework de gestão do conhecimento

Abstract

Engineering professors basically teach like their former teachers. They usually have little pedagogical knowledge and inadequate training in the area to make up for their deficiencies. The principle of a change in the Teaching-Learning Process starts from the belief that it is the student and not the teacher who is the protagonist of this process. This awareness is of fundamental importance for teachers to seek new ways of conducting their subjects. In view of this complex context, innovation and creativity are seen as factors for improvement in engineering courses. The world is living in the era of knowledge and knowledge management is an important area in the innovation and creativity of organizations through its models. These knowledge management models are a simplified representation of reality, but they can be more comprehensive with the incorporation of a framework. This framework must consist of a set of questions, concepts and support actions in the solution of the problem-situation. Therefore, this work has the general objective of applying a knowledge management framework in order to obtain improvements in engineering undergraduate courses. One of the results obtained was the creation of a line of research for postgraduate courses called Engineering in Education, adding to the term Education in Engineering.