Estudo comparativo das habilidades e competências para o Engenheiro na percepção do mercado de trabalho, dos discentes e docentes da Universidade Federal do Ceará – Campus Russas

Abstract

Determining the skills necessary to exercise the activity of engineer is a demand of interest both from industrial companies and mainly from Higher Education Institutions, which act as mediators of knowledge and trainers of skills for graduates. The search for competitive differentials in terms of quality, productivity, management, among other attributes, makes the job market increasingly judicious in choosing its professionals. The objective of this work was to investigate how the job market, teachers and students perceive the skills and competences necessary for the engineering professional. The methodology involved a bibliographic review and a survey that obtained 55 responses. The results showed that there is a certain gap between what the three groups of analysis consider important for what is currently provided in the academic environment. From the results of this research, it is concluded that efforts must be made to overcome such deficiencies in the professional training of the engineer, especially in skills such as management, leadership and communication. It is understood, therefore, that in the current scenario there is a need for the academic environment to seek greater integration with the labor market so that together they can direct and provide better training for the engineer, which, consequently, improve skills and competences and result in into more qualified professionals to create solutions and solve the problems of modern society.