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Engineering Education In Brazil: Some Considerations

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

Dr. Claudio da Rocha Brito has received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, B.S. degree in Mathematics, B.S. degree in Physics, M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering all from the University of São Paulo. He is listed in "Who's Who in the World", "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who in Science and Engineering", "Five Thousand Personalities of the World", "Dictionary of International Biography", "Men of Achievement" and others similar publications.

New Strategies In Engineering And Technology Education – Seeding For Future

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

Council of Researches in Education and Sciences (COPEC), President of Brazilian Nucleus of Environmental Researches and Health (NBPAS), President of Fishing Museum Friends Society (AAMP) and President of (Brazilian) National Monitoring Committee of "Internationale Gesellschaft für Ingenieurpädagogik" (IGIP). He is Chairman of Working Group "Ingenieurpädagogik im Internationalen Kontext" and Member of International Monitoring Committee in IGIP, Council Member of "International Council for Engineering and Technology Education" (INTERTECH), Board Member of "Global Council on Manufacturing and Management" (GCMM) and Director of Brazilian Network of Engineering (RBE/SP). He was President of Brazilian Chapter of Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE-EdSoc)and Member of Administrative Committee of Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE-EdSoc) in USA.

The Expected Profile of the Next Century Brazilian Electrical Engineer

This article discuss the first results obtained from a survey conducted in Rio de Janeiro state (Brazil) among the engineers working in established electrical sector companies, universities and research institutions located in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The survey aims, among others things, to obtain information on the characteristics of their present occupation, as wel l as their expectations concerning the profile of the next century electrical engineer. This survey is, in fact, an aid tool to help on the ongoing project to stablish the characteristics of the new profile for the electrical engineer professional face the reality of the Brazilian and the world economic trends and the consequent needs of the corresponding market for this category of professionals

A Contribution For Engineering Education In Brazil

2001 Annual Conference Proceedings

In 1996 the Education Ministry of Brazil published the Federal Law no. 9.394 known as LDB-Basis and Directress Law of Education. With this new Law it started the educational reforms with the objective of increasing the quality of 3rd Grade in the Country. Although the reforms are associated to a political project of the present team of Republic, the real motivation is due to the consequences of a new social and technical post industrial paradigm recognized simply as: Globalization. Among all the characteristics of this new productive model, the most interesting one may be the intense use of information technology as an aggregation factor of people and markets. Immersed in this context of international integration of deep and radical changes in society and in the producing system, that the engineering project of SENAC School of Engineering and Technology has emerged. It is a Telecommunication Engineering Program, which contains in its curricula the "free period". It is called so because it is the time that the students can attend classes in the several other areas of knowledge, in one of the Units of SENAC. They are free to choose among the many options like environment issues, nursery, photography, gastronomy, languages, arts and etc. They can choose as many areas as they want along the five years, at least one per two years. At the end of each period they present a report about their development in those areas. The reports are discussed with a group of a psychologist, a pedagogue, an engineer professor and the coordinator of the course. This added to the basic science courses, basic engineering courses and specific engineering courses.

U.Porto, its Faculty of Engineering and PBL approaches

International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 2014

The University of Porto (U.Porto) was founded in 1911. Its Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) is the largest school of U.Porto. U.Porto and FEUP are very active in research, development and innovation with about 20% of all scientific papers in Portugal among the 15 public Universities in the country. FEUP is also aware of the important role of higher education in training future engineers. U.Porto and FEUP have been following discussions and significant efforts have been made for promoting teacher professional development in order to guaranty new teaching/learning methodologies and initiatives to promote engineering education. Diverse initiatives came out since 2000. This work describes different projects specially developed at FEUP like the EMPE project and the FEUP project will be described and results will be addressed. Also, a global and huge program from U.Porto, iJUP, will be presented as very unifying interdisciplinary program at U.Porto involving together teachers/researchers and...

Decade of Implantation of the Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in the Western Amazon

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 2017

This paper deals with the implementation of the Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering in Western Amazonia, as well as it presents an analysis of the academic performance of students in the Basic and Professional Core. The Federal University of Rondônia Foundation (UNIR), located in Porto Velho, Brazil, started the activities of the course in 2007 and continues to invest in the infrastructure and qualification of human resources in order to stimulate technological development in the region. Analyzing the performance data of the academics regarding the degree of difficulty established from the curricular offer, it is possible to infer some answers. In the course of the analysis, the databases emerged by taking note, such as students who only enroll and do not attend the course, among others. The disciplines diverged into two segments, Basic Core (NB) and Professional Core (NP). The data refers to the grades obtained by the students in all the disciplines studied and offered ...

The discussions after the Bologna Process in Europe: The Global Engineer

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

Associations (FEBRAE) and Representative of the Engineering Computer in Network of Integration and Academic Mobility of UNESCO. He is "Deputy Governor" of the International Biographical Association "and" Deputy Director General "of the International Biographical Centre. He has his biography published in "Who's Who in the World", "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who in Science and Engineering", "Five Thousand Personalities of the World", "Dictionary of International Biography", "Men of Achievement" and various other similar publications. Although born in So Paulo, he received from City of Santos the title of "Santos Citizen" and he was also the first American Professor to receive the title of "International Engineering Educator" of IGIP. He also received several international medals, including two by appointment of Queen Elizabeth II of England. He received numerous honors due to his services to Scientific Commonwealth and Technological Cooperation among them: the Centennial Medal of the Polytechnic School, Award of the International Council on Engineering and Technology Education, Award from the International Council on Engineering and Computer Education, Medal of the International Biographical Association, Medal of the International Biographical Centre, Medal of the New York Academy of Sciences, he is in the "Hall of Fame" of The American Biographical Institute. He was patron of several classes where we emphasize 1st Class of Computer Engineering of Polytechnic School of University of So Paulo and 1st Class of Computer Engineering from Catholic University. He has over three hundred and fifty published articles in several conferences and journals. He wrote the chapter "History of Electrical Engineering" in the book commemorating the 100 years of the Polytechnic School of USP. He was a consultant of various federal and private universities in Brazil and abroad; in many companies and magazines such as "Small Companies, Big Business." Dr. Claudio da Rocha Brito coordinated and participated in dozens of organizing

Special issue on engineering education: challenges for innovation

European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015

Engineering education plays an essential role in the pursuit of a more sustainable and equitable world. These two challenges imply training engineers to conceive and develop better goods and services with less, renewable resources (sustainability) for serving a large growing world population (equity), as denoted by the US National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies (2008). How to better train engineering students in a globalised, fast-evolving, and technology-dependant world is the goal of engineering education research. During the past 100 years, a number of challenges in engineering education have been tackled by a worldwide community of researchers, either motivated by the emergence of new technologies contributing to or requiring a redefinition of engineering curricula or by the input of educational sciences with suggestions for new approaches to teaching & learning (Froyd, Wankat, and Smith 2012). In all these shifts, innovation played a key role: either by improving a given aspect without compromising all remaining aspects (evolution) or by introducing a radically new aspect, often borrowed from other knowledge areas, allowing to improve a number of aspects at the same time (revolution). The USA has shaped the landscape of engineering education for the past century, with associations like the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) now celebrating more than 120 years of existence. In contrast, Europe and Latin America have only embraced this movement in more recent decades, with associations like the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP), and the Brazilian Association for Engineering Education (ABENGE), being created in 1973, 1972, and 1973, respectively. More recently, the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (SPEE) was formally created in 2010, in an endeavour to motivate, coordinate, and foster contributions from Portuguese researchers to the Engineering Education field. This guest editorial is one particular result of that endeavour. It is structured as follows: Section 1 presents the very short history of SPEE, while also describing the antecedents of its 1st International Conference (CISPEE); Section 2 describes the rationale, aims, and layout of CISPEE, plus the process that led to the present special issue; Section 3 details the contents of the special issue and also of the special section, within a regular issue of the EJEE, containing a smaller number of contributions that required some additional editing efforts from their authors; and, finally, Section 4 concludes the guest editorial.

A Cooperative Project for Electrical Engineering Education at Unesp - São Paulo State University

UNESP - São Paulo State University is a successful experiment of the Multicampus University in Brazil, maintaining intense and diversified education activities in the most developed state of the Federation, the São Paulo State. The multicampus structure, that consist of fifteen university campuses and two advanced ones, and the geographical distribution throughout the State of São Paulo has permitted UNESP to realize a experiment in the decentralization of high quality public education. In the area of engineering education, this University has three Engineering Colleges located at the cities, Guaratinguetá, Bauru and Ilha Solteira. The three Electrical Departments at the campuses Guaratinguetá, Bauru and Ilha Solteira, have been in a permanent process of transformation, constantly improvement of engineering education. In this environment, these departments started in march/1997, a cooperative project for electrical engineering education improvement at UNESP. This paper presents desc...