A integração acadêmica e tecnológica na formação do Engenheiro do Centro de Tecnologia da UFC

Abstract

In the last century Science and Technology have made such a progress that the level of specialization in engineering has resulted in the creation of many new areas in engineering, as well as different kinds of new engineering degrees. On the other hand that progress has also introduced a higher level of complexity in engineering projects, so that the 21st century engineer has a much greater challenge ahead. Those challenges have been approached by using teaching and learning methodologies but they are usually applied to a specific engineering course. In Brazilian universities, it is usual the engineering graduation courses rely on engineering departments to provide the courses which are part of it. The problem is that many times those departments are not in tune with each other, and their didactic and pedagogical actions are not in tune either. As a consequence, the graduation courses have difficulty to implement the methodologies that may deal with the questions aforementioned. In this paper is discussed the creation of the Department of Academic and Technological Integration (DIATEC), at the Technology Center of Universidade Federal do Ceará, which has the mission to coordinating not only the task of knowledge connection, but also the didactic and pedagogic actions among the engineering departments.