FORMAÇÃO DE ENGENHEIROS DE SISTEMAS NO BRASIL: USO ESTRATÉGICO DE PROBLEMAS EM ABERTO

Abstract

DOI: 10.14684/intertech.13.2014.272-276

Since the mid-twentieth century changes in technology paradigms initiated global transformations with unprecedented possibilities and challenges, in which engineering has a major role. However, this field faces the challenges of high indices of evasion and failure and low levels of entrepreneurship and innovation in students. Open-ended problems might be a strategical didactic activity to tackle this. Instructors should utilize this in their teaching practice, even though they were not taught like this. In reporting this experience, within the context of implementation of project laboratories in a pioneer undergraduate program funded by Brazilian REUNI/MEC – systems engineering at UFMG -, we present how instructors have evaluated their experience in the use of open-ended problems in the second module of these laboratories. They learn how to utilize this resource during their practice, illuminating it by the experience in the research field, despite not finding support in their experience as students.

Index Terms - Systems engineering undergraduate program, project laboratories, open-ended problems, complex technology systems.