Mapeamento das principais dificuldades do aluno ingressante no curso de Engenharia Mecânica

Abstract

Engineering courses have offered a large number of places for admission in the most diverse modalities, however, in recent years, despite this large offer, an increase in the dropout rate and the difficulty for these students to remain during the course has been noticed, Therefore, the present work aims to map the main difficulties presented by students recently arriving in Higher Education, more precisely in the Mechanical Engineering course offered by the Federal University of Ceará. To this end, descriptive and applied research was used as a data collection method, through the theoretical foundation and analysis of the main variables existing in the teaching and learning process. With the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data collected, it was found that difficulties with the large volume of content presented during the course, together with problems in choosing the best study strategy, directly affected the student's performance. Deficiencies found in the establishment of basic subjects, seen during High School, also constituted obstacles in teaching. Added to these points were problems with social and interpersonal relationships. Finally, through the case study carried out with the application of questionnaires, it was possible to verify that the scenario in which the student found himself when entering college was a challenge, requiring him to recycle his old knowledge and establish plans to acquire new ones.