Estruturação de projetos desafio na disciplina de introdução à engenharia utilizando metodologias ativas

Abstract

This paper presents the methodology and the results achieved in the design of the challenge projects in the Introduction to Engineering course, offered to students of the first period of eight undergraduate majors of the Engineering School of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG. Currently, much of the course is dedicated to the Introduction to Engineering Challenge, in which students are organized into multidisciplinary groups. Using the "Design Thinking” methodology, they develop a solution to some identified demand in the university. The process of ideation and execution counts on the collaboration of veteran students volunteers who assume the role of instructors and monitors. This activity in the unified Introduction to Engineering course was conceived within the scope of the Innovation Program for Engineering Education - ENG200 and is coordinated by teachers of the Engineering School majors and by ENG200 Program managers. The development of the challenge projects allows the incoming student to develop a vision of what it is to be an engineer, through an active methodology, making him/her more protagonist in his/her learning process and creating an identity with the world of Engineering.