A VISÃO E AS PERSPECTIVAS DOS ESTUDANTES DE ENGENHARIA QUÍMICA ACERCA DO ENSINO E DA ADOÇÃO DE PRÁTICAS E IDEIAS SUSTENTÁVEIS NA ÁREA

Abstract

The main objective of the study is to analyze the vision and perspectives of the students of the Chemical Engineering course at the Federal University of Paraiba about the adhesion and propagation of sustainable approaches throughout their graduation, as well as the graduates. For this analysis, questionnaires were developed in order to collect the collaborators' weights, which were divided into three groups: group I referring to students from the first to third periods, group II to seniors and group III to graduates. The research is descriptive and had as a qualitative approach the survey data collection method, that is, a survey questionnaire. The sample comprises 43 participants. With the great importance that the subject has gained in recent years, understanding and having access to sustainable ideas has become a differential for newly graduated professionals, as it gives them the conditions to rethink and trace innovative thinking to solve problems; often, even of great value for solving cases proposed in selection processes and trainees. There was a large variance between the responses of the three groups regarding the questions asked, however, mostly, tending to the positive side. It was also seen that the view of the problem varied according to how they would mature over the semesters. One of the objectives of the present work is to document such data and leave them for consultation to serve as a reflective basis for other students and even interested professors, in addition to showing how the interviewees view is about the bias addressed and how much sustainability has impact on the performance of future engineers, showing how much the topic must be learned, understood and interpreted so that it can advance and propagate more sustainable production routes and, in this way, contribute to society the academic extension necessary and required by it.