As diretrizes curriculares nacionais e a formação em Engenharia Química na UFPB

Abstract

The creation of a minimum quality standard in Engineering qualification was responsible for the establishment of a sufficient and independent National Engineering system in Brazil. However, Engineering, and especially Chemical Engineering, has always presented itself as a dynamic area, extremely sensitive to the advances achieved by society, in addition to economic and environmental factors, in this way, the normative documents that propose to establish or indicate directions for the Engineering education, must be flexible and constantly reviewed, in order to maintain the competitiveness of trained professionals in a national and international context. In this sense, the National Curricular Guidelines for the Engineering Course, the main normative document for the teaching of Engineering in Brazil, has undergone a recent update, imposing changes to be absorbed by the undergraduate courses that have changed not only the way of structuring the courses , but they brought a reflection on the process of training the professionals themselves. The objective of this work was to evaluate the Chemical Engineering Course at the Federal University of Paraíba in view of the updating of the Curricular Guidelines for the Engineering Course (DCN). To understand the situation of the course in view of the requirements and indications recommended by DCN, qualitative assessment questionnaires were applied on the Chemical Engineering course at UFPB. The data made available in the INEP Microdata Reports were also evaluated to deepen the discussions on aspects of the course and to compare it with other HEIs. Based on the data obtained, suggestions were made to better suit the DCN course.