Complementando a grade curricular de cursos de graduação por meio da temporada de minicursos

Abstract

The technological innovations developed in the computational area in the last decades are directly modifying the dynamics of all the professional performances, and one of the main impacts is related to engineering. Projects that were developed over months, today the same projects are developed in weeks, which means that the productivity of the profession was raised drastically. In this context, it becomes clear that to be competitive in the job market, the engineer must be constantly updated. However, in contrast to this situation, most Brazilian universities did not adhere to the use of these new tools to enable their students, who individually need to find a solution to qualify as required by the profession. In order to provide a greater contact of students with the updates applied, mainly, to the engineering, the Tutorial Education Program of the civil engineering course of the Federal University of Ceará (PET Civil) performs the Minicourses Season. The activity is divided into two moments, the first being external, where members of the PET Civil offer courses for any interested student. Posteriorly, the internal editing is realized for the improvement of the program's own members, from courses given by invited professionals or even other PET groups. In its last external edition, the activity offered 11 mini-courses in total, obtaining 446 registrations and generating 118 certificates. Thus, from the repercussion of the activity and from student adherence, the relevance of the mini-course season in the context of engineering students becomes clear.