Entrepreneurial Education: Pedagogical and Methodological Innovations in the Brazilian’s Engineering Courses Curriculum (69759)
Session Chair: Jovani Castelan
Saturday, 22 April 2023 09:55
Session: Session 1
Room: Ballston Room
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The interest of students in engineering courses has been decreasing since 2014 and this downward trend has increased after pandemic, since many students express interest in health area. On the other hand, companies have searched skilled labor's students from universities to compose their staff but they are not able to find. Thus, considering the needs of companies and universities, a new engineering curriculum model was developed, based on entrepreneurial education, active methodologies, no-linear skill modules, integrator projects and Venture of Course Conclusion. Besides that, a support program to cover student’s study expenses was designed, funded by companies and university. The objectives are: a) to arise student's interest for engineering; b)provide qualified workers for the professional Market even before their graduated and c) to develop innovation focused on social demands, since beginning of the courses. In short, the innovations based on new curricula are: 1) Engineering Practices’ subject in the first period of the course; 2) Decrease of Calculus subjects’ workload and use mobile platform in these ones to monitor the execution of projects with real applications; 3) integrator projects that gather and apply the knowledge developed in the same module’s subjects and 4) Venture of Course Conclusion (VCC), approaching economic and commercial viability of an idea, replacing the traditional Course Conclusion Work, based on scientific aspects only. In an VCC, it’s possible to join students of different courses, developing an interdisciplinar work. The integrative projects must be developed to an institution or Community, aiming real and applicable solutions to benefit them.
Authors:
Jovani Castelan, UNISATC, Brazil
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Jovani Castelan is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at UNISATC in Brazil
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