Evasão estudantil no curso de Engenharia de Alimentos da Universidade Federal do Ceará e estudo de caso através do "Engenharia de quê? Podcast" como ferramenta de incentivo à permanência

Abstract

Evasion in Higher Education can occur at any time during graduation, voluntarily or not, and may be related to external factors such as economic, social, personal or academic. In engineering courses dropout is even more intense. This work aims to understand the dropout phenomenon in the Food Engineering course at the Federal University of Ceará and to evaluate the potential of extension projects aimed at encouraging the permanence of university students, such as the one carried out by the podcast “Engenharia de que?”. The study was carried out through the analysis of data on the enrollment situation provided by the course coordination and by the application of questionnaires to 14 guests who participated in the podcast sharing their experiences as graduates of the Food Engineering course. One of the viable solutions would be to know the reality and vulnerabilities of students by graduation course and Higher Education Institution and thus carry out more targeted policies, aimed at the inclusion and support of students in each context.