Departamento de Engenharia Agrícola: um relato da história

Abstract

History is fundamental to understanding the construction of a society. It is through it that is possible to understand the phases and development of a place or facts of a particular period. The objective of this work was to collect information through interviews, aiming to report part of the history of the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará. A survey of part of the history of the Department of Agricultural Engineering of the Agronomy Course at the Federal University of Ceará was carried out through oral history. Oral history is a research methodology characterized by obtaining information through recorded interviews. The researcher can address the questions to the facts in which the respondent had direct or indirect participation. Interviews were conducted with retired professors and also with those still working. The interviewed professors were Raimundo Nonato Távora Costa, Renato Sílvio da Frota Ribeiro, Eunice Maia de Andrade, Moisés Custódio Saraiva Leão, Carlos Alberto Villiote and Claudivan Feitosa de Lacerda. The work also had the collaboration of documents from the Centro de Ciencias Agrarias with the support of the Administrative Manager of the Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Manoel Irlano Barbosa Leite. This research was used to elaborate on part of the history of the department from its creation until now.