Educación en Ingeniería en Brasil – el caso UTFPR
Marcia dos Santos Lopes
Marcos Flavio de Oliveira Schiefler Filho
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Educación en Ingeniería en Brasil – el caso UTFPR | ||
| Published in: | Engineering for a Smarter Planet: Innovation, ITC, and Computational Tools for Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology | |
| Date of Conference: | August 3-5, 2011 | |
| Location of Conference: | Medellin, Colombia | |
| Authors: | Carlos Alberto Dallabona Marcia dos Santos Lopes Marcos Flavio de Oliveira Schiefler Filho | |
| Refereed Paper: | #152 | |
Abstract | ||
| This article discusses the recent expansion of engineering courses at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), situating this expansion in the context of engineering education in Brazil. This knowledge area had great quantitative expansion in recent years, without qualitative expansion in the same proportion, with modest changes in curricula, teaching practices and methodology, despite intense discussion about that. In this context the UTFPR, the unique technological university in Brazil, has expanded its multicampi structure, introducing dozens of engineering courses in a specific educational environment, a consequence of its evolution beginning as craft elementary school, created in the early twentieth century. The institution has developed to be one of the largest Brazilian institutions in engineering education, offering courses in technological areas, which are consistent with its origin and are distributed in various campi in the Parana state. | ||