Investigação de abordagens da sustentabilidade no ensino do curso de Engenharia Civil da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The emergence of environmental and development issues has increasingly demanded social mobilization. The professional of civil engineer, as a holder of knowledge and an agent of transformation, must be even more aware of his role in contributing to society and be qualified to do so. Thus, it is necessary to investigate how Higher Education Institutions have provided the development of skills and competencies in Engineering Education that enable this type of training. Thus, taking the Civil Engineering course at the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) as an object of study, an investigation of the teaching of sustainability were carried out, which has been provided by the institution, through the content analysis of the Pedagogical Project of the Course (PPC), specifically of the syllabus content, and through the analysis of the students' perception on the theme, through the application of a questionnaire. From the results, it was possible to observe that despite the PPC of the course addressing sustainability horizontally and vertically through the curriculum, such approaches are still insufficiently reflected in the development of skills and competencies by the students. The students also assessed the quality of education for sustainability as bad or very bad and supported several strategies to improve this education. Thus, it is hoped that the results of this work may promote a reflection on improving the teaching of sustainability in the Civil Engineering course at the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC).