O ensino de Engenharia na Universidade Federal do Ceará: um diagnóstico do Curso de Engenharia Civil

Abstract

The engineering courses of the Centro de Tecnologia of the Universidade Federal do Ceará have been going through an intense debate on the reformulation of their pedagogical designs. Despite defining attributions and objectives, the standardization process does not address the student body participation. In this way, this work presents a diagnosis of the Civil Engineering course, held in the second semester of 2016, from the students’ perspective, since it understands this stage as a crucial part of the debate. To that end, a review of the literature was carried out, addressing important aspects to the pedagogical design, such as curriculum, teaching-learning process, focus on competence, teaching in higher education, current national guidelines and a descriptive analysis of the current pedagogical design of the Civil Engineering course. From this perspective, a methodological proposal used in the integrated urban planning was adapted to the course diagnosis, which included a survey of the problems that sought to point out evidences on the raised hypotheses and the proposition of indicators, variables, and parameters that helped in this process. The data collection was run using physical and electronic forms, totalizing 392 responses, which corresponds to 60.21% of the active student body in the referred semester. Results showed that the current situation of the course can be characterized as far from the design proposals, especially in the accomplishment of these objectives through the propositions of the courses, the dynamics between departments and curricular units and the teaching-learning process in the classroom.