Aproximação do Centro de Tecnologia às Escolas Públicas por meio da Disciplina de Topografia

Abstract

In order to bring public schools closer to the Technology Center, the Extension Project "Engineering at School" was created, which aims to inform the students of the selected schools about the opportunities that the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) provides and to relate the contents learned in the subjects of Mathematics and Geography. The discipline of Topography of the professional course of Civil Engineering was chosen to demonstrate practical applications of Engineering. In this way, nine schools were selected, most of them around Campus do Pici, to carry out teaching and extension activities. The activity took place in two moments. Firstly, the lecture was held in each school to explain to the students of the third year of high school the services that the university provides to students and the community, as well as the areas of activity of some engineering: Civil, Environmental, Renewable Energies and Petroleum. From these schools, eighty students interested in participating in a mini-course on "Notions of Topography and its Applications" were selected, in which it was explained about the planimetric (day 1) and altimetric (day 2) surveys, explaining theory and practice , in the field, with the topographic instruments (total stations, theodolites and levels). The results showed that the students were able to relate the content covered in the mini-course with those that had already been studied during their school life, being well evaluated by the participants.