A importância do Laboratório de Energias Alternativas da Universidade Federal do Ceará no desenvolvimento de pesquisas e formação de engenheiros

Abstract

The present paper aims to verify the students' opinion about the importance of the Laboratory of Alternative Energies (LEA) for the development of researches and academic formation of the engineering courses of the Federal University of Ceará. In a way, there is a considerable gap between the absorption of scientific knowledge through theoretical and experimental lectures. Thus, the purpose of the LEA is to reduce this gap in knowledge acquisition, being the source of several researches and academic works related to the generation of electric energy by renewable energies sources. For this, a questionnaire was used in the Google Forms platform, answered by undergraduate and graduate students. In view of the obtained data, a positive response to the purpose of LEA students' learning and to the students' needs to have a laboratory available to carry out their research was verified with a percentage greater than 80%.