A construção social da formação profissional na área de engenharia: possibilidades de educação do engenheiro cidadão

Abstract

It is an evaluative research on the social construction of vocational training in Engineering Courses in Undergraduate Civil Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering, affiliated to the Technology Center (TC) of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), which aimed to central to understand how this occurs social constitution, it was a predominantly qualitative research, using as a research strategy, the multiple case study, how data collection techniques were used, document analysis, interviews, and structured survey, respondents were subjects managers of the CT / UFC, engineers, teachers, students and representatives of the investigated courses of professional associations in the field of engineering, and technical data analysis, we used the Content analysis, in view of Franco (2008). The survey results revealed that rationality prevails in the curricula of schools surveyed, is the technical-instrumental, signs of a critical rationality, manifested in the discourse of the subjects, who expressed that, in the technical-instrumental training the engineer, should be combined with the human, social and environmental dimensions, which would allow the formation of a Senior Citizen, the central thesis guiding this study, as evidenced by data collected in the investigation. The study is relevant to the area of Engineering Education, and to the area of Curriculum Evaluation, which allowed us to propose elements for the organization of an evaluation system for the engineering curricula.