Engenharia na escola: a disciplina de topografia como meio aproximador entre os ensinos médio e superior

Abstract

Based on the National Policy of University Extension and to allow a closer approximation of the public high school students of the city of Fortaleza-CE with the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and with the Technology Center (CT), the "Engineering in the School" project was created. The main goal was to strengthen ties between the university and public schools by bringing information to prospective UFC students about the University's opportunities for them. Another objective of this work was to make it possible to apply the contents studied during the school life of the secondary school student, especially in the subjects of Relief, Cartography, Scales, Projections, Trigonometry, Flat and Space Geometry seen in the subjects of Geography and Mathematics during High School. For this application, the discipline of Topography of the professional course of Civil Engineering was used, showing practical applications of Engineering. To that end, nine schools were selected, most of them around Campus of Pici, where the UFC is located, two activities that unite two university pillars, teaching and extension were developed. At the first moment, a lecture was held in each school, with the purpose of explaining to the students of the third year of high school about what services the University provides to students and the community in general, as well as the exhibition on the performance in the society of different types of engineers (Civil, Environmental, Renewable Energy and Petroleum). From this universe of students from the nine schools, 80 (eighty) students interested in participating in a mini course on "Topography Notions and their Applications" were selected. Topics such as: planimetric survey (day 1) and altimetry (day 2), with explanations of the theory and experimentation in the field, with topographic instruments (theodolites, levels, total stations). The results showed that the students could aggregate the topics covered in the minicourse with those studied during their High School life and was well evaluated by the participants