Análise de uma pesquisa de mercado sobre a percepção de demanda de um curso de engenharia de inovação para a indústria 4.0

Abstract

Contemporary civilization is historically experiencing an emerging fourth industrial revolution, also called Industry 4.0. A new industry that integrates production technologies with management, requiring professionals to have a set of skills ranging from creative and innovating capacity to skills in modeling processes and managing. The key concept of these new skills is innovation, which among numerous definitions, can be understood as the creation of a new and viable offer. Within the scope of Industry 4.0, where Management 4.0, Logistics 4.0, Manufacturing 4.0, among others, stands out in the case of this work, Education 4.0, which will train professionals for new economic, social and environmental demands. In this context, it is believed that new courses are needed, such as the Innovation Engineering course, which would convergently address new axes of disciplines integrating innovation and business management, information systems and design. This work shows the results and analyzes of a market research, carried out with engineers and professors of engineering from private colleges in the Greater Belo Horizonte, on the perception of demand for an Innovation Engineering course for Industry 4.0, which does not exist in the country. The results, due to the type of sample and diverging in the set of responses obtained through a questionnaire, were inconclusive. This work contributes to the deepening of the Industry 4.0 theme and its scope, specifically Education 4.0. It shows the need for new researches with new methodologies and metrics, approaching not only universities but also industries, in order to know with greater precision the needs of new engineering courses in the context of the challenges of the new times in our country.