Pub Date : 2019-06-17DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V6.54667
Taciano M. Moraes, L. G. R. Guedes, Sheryl Root
Numerous studies show that leadership is one of the factors that impact most on software projects’ success. But even with more than $14B spent yearly on leadership development, it is worrying that more than half of the organizations still believe they are not doing it effectively. One of the most efficient methodologies used in companies is David Kolb’s Experiential Learning, but still uncommon on universities due to the difficulty of simulating practical experiences. Many approaches have been tried with various results and little standardization. For this reason, this study proposes a model for using group activities to help technology students practice leadership skills. A first pilot was executed with positive outcome but more experiments are necessary to ensure its application on other skills and contexts.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-05DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V6.54715
L. Marins, Edson de Paula Carvalho, Walkiria Silva Soares Marins, Douglas do Couto Soares, Francilaine Calixto Gouveia
The present work describes an exchange of experiences among students of the State School CIEP 291 - Dom Martinho Schlude in the City of Pinheiral, RJ, with the Advertising and Propaganda students, Information Systems and Engineering of the University Center of Volta Redonda (UniFOA) during a period of six months. The partnership arose due to a school´s need to develop some actions to participate in the Jaguar Land Rover Competition, 4x4 in Schools Technology Challenge. The challenge required technological changes in a prototype of a 4x4 vehicle approximately 20 cm long, 10 cm wide and 10 cm high. A micro-enterprise was create, with a logo and marketing actions, approaching an entrepreneurial vision. All actions taken were on display on a given day through verbal presentations and visualization of the team's booth. In addition to fulfill these needs, each team were evaluate on the performance test of the prototype in an obstacle course to take time. A partnership with UniFOA was created to assist in project development and support in the area of technology, strategy and marketing. Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) led the industry's support in research and development for strategic planning for the team's actions. The students of the courses of Design, Information Systems, Advertising and Propaganda and Electrical and Mechanical Engineering assigned two hours a week for approximately six months to a technical monitoring involving the needs of the Team. In the end, the secondary students were able to elaborate all the necessary requirements according to the regulation participating in the National Stage and later of the World Stage. The UniFOA students were able to apply the concepts using Project Based Learning as a methodology fulfilling the role of the university in the society that is to produce knowledge, generate critical thinking, organize and articulate knowledge, forming citizens and professionals. The experience was very enriching providing for all involved strengthening of numerous cognitive and socio emotional skills. As a result of the project, the AUTO291 team was the champion in the National Stage, conquering the opportunity to represent the country in the world event, being the champion team in the category of "Best Media Dissemination" and was among the top three in the "in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates..
本作品描述了RJ Pinheiral市公立学校CIEP 291 - Dom Martinho Schlude的学生与Volta Redonda大学中心(UniFOA)广告和宣传专业的学生之间为期六个月的经验交流。由于一所学校需要制定一些行动来参加捷豹路虎比赛，4x4学校技术挑战赛，因此产生了合作关系。这项挑战要求对一辆长约20厘米、宽约10厘米、高约10厘米的4x4车辆原型进行技术改造。一个微型企业被创建，有一个标志和营销行动，接近企业家的愿景。所有采取的行动都通过口头演示和团队展位的可视化展示在给定的一天。除了满足这些需求外，每个团队还在障碍训练场中对原型的性能测试进行评估，以花费时间。与联发厅建立了伙伴关系，以协助技术、战略和销售领域的项目发展和支助。Siderúrgica national公司(CSN)在研发方面为该团队的行动提供了战略规划方面的支持。设计、信息系统、广告和宣传以及电气和机械工程课程的学生在大约六个月的时间里，每周安排两小时进行技术监测，以满足工作队的需要。最后，中学生们根据参加全国赛和后来的世界赛的规定，详细阐述了所有必要的要求。UniFOA学生能够运用基于项目的学习作为一种方法来应用这些概念，履行大学在社会中的作用，即产生知识，产生批判性思维，组织和表达知识，形成公民和专业人士。这段经历非常丰富，为所有参与者提供了许多认知和社会情感技能的强化。由于这个项目，AUTO291团队在国家舞台上获得了冠军，赢得了代表国家参加世界赛事的机会，成为“最佳媒体传播”类别的冠军团队，并在阿拉伯联合酋长国阿布扎比的“最佳媒体传播”类别中名列前三名。
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Pub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V6.54693
Alane Teixeira Rodrigues, Robson Lopes de Couto, Jermana L. Moraes, V. P. Pinto, R. Almeida
The application of robotics as an instrument for boosting the learning process inside classrooms is nowadays a quite reachable reality. The participatory method, in which students and tutors cooperate among themselves for pursuing knowledge, reveals itself as an increasingly easer and didactic manner of passing on knowledge in class. Making use of this learning method, and the interest of the youth for the technological field, a semi-attending robotics course has been delivered by students of the Universidade Federal do Ceará to students and teachers from the public schools’ system in the municipality of Sobral, State of Ceará, in partnership with the UFC Virtual Institute and the Education Office of Sobral (SEDUC). It is common that students of secondary education lose interest and feel discouraged when studying some school subjects, because of their abstract nature. Aiming for aiding the teaching of these subjects, such as mathematics, physics and computer programming, Educational Robotics was used as an effort for making such subjects more interesting and easier to grasp, dynamizing their studying. This project aimed to introduce basic notions about robotics making use of the Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit, with aid of SOLAR, an online platform where the e-learning classes were taught, and the utilization of a visual language for programming the robots, part of the software bundled with the Lego Mindstorms Ev3 kit. The in-person meetings were carried out every last weekend of each month, so that the students could practice programming the Lego Mindstorms and put into use what they had learned in the virtual classes beforehand. At the end of the course, when all the students already had the skills for programming the robotics kit, a competition was held with the intent of harvesting the results obtained over the duration of the course. The teams with best performance were awarded medals and trophies, as recognition of the effort they put in. The participants were also encouraged to keep studying and improving their knowledge of robotics after the end of the course.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-02DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V6.54740
Marlison Noronha Rosa, Yan Machado Sousa, Karla Emmanuela Ribeiro Hora, K. Kopp, G. Júnior
Electrical energy is essential for the quality of life of people, who use it in different socioeconomic activities and for technological development. In view of the gradual increase in the demand for electricity and the future possibility of not serving all the consumer sectors, it is necessary to optimize it. The objective of this study was the application of strategies based on the pillars of energy efficiency and environmental education in order to minimize the expenditure of electric energy in public buildings, which were selected for this project due to the fact that, its users show a lack of concern about the correct consumption of electric energy since the expenses are tied to the public coffers and are not always perceived by the people as resources coming from the taxes paid by the citizens. Among the public buildings that consume the most electric energy, the most important are those in the education sector. In fact, a larger project called the Energy Efficiency Project in Public Buildings in Goiânia (PEEEPG), to which this work is linked, found that among the municipal public buildings, the education sector is responsible for approximately 30% of the electricity consumption and, therefore, this specific sector was selected for the application of the selected strategies. The methodology used was based on research-participant, environmental education together with replacement of lamps by LED system (Light Emitting Diode) at strategic locations in the building and monitoring of results. The actions carried out included the lamp replacement, and educational lectures offered to students of different age groups in three school shifts with a partnership of employees and teachers of the municipal school selected on energy efficiency and strategies to reduce the consumption of electricity. The project mobilized directly about 200 people belonging to the target audience and indirectly 800 students who were part of the teaching unit. It was collected a data base among 2012 to 2016. The methods of data collection and analysis were based on documentary research, analyzing the electric energy bills of the building, as well as documents and legislation of the municipality itself on the consumption of electric power and the architecture model applied to school environments in Goiânia. The results obtained, after a monitoring period of six months (November to April) during the years 2016 and 2017, indicated an analyze to reduction of 16% of the consumption of electric energy in the building, compared to the same period in the previous year. Therefore, this result regard to the possibility of investments in energy efficiency projects for public buildings, subsidizing actions in the design, retrofit and maintenance of public buildings.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-15DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V5I2.55124
Simone Ramires, Rafaela Cabral Almeida Trizotto, Anthony Cesar Menegasso Menezes, Gabriel Ananias Candido
The Center for Educational Engineering – NEED of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul’s School of Engineering has fostering the continuous improvement and innovation of engineering education through the development of innovative teaching practices as its goal. The project “Freshmen Reception – UFRGS Challenge” – 2017/1 was created as proposed. In this sense, NEED, drawing from concepts of active learning issued to the freshmen the challenge of how to make UFRGS more sustainable, making it possible to associate theoretical knowledge with practice. Through the proposed challenge, the Ciclo Camp project was developed by a group of freshmen from the SE’s various engineering courses, who suggested an alternate mean of internal transportation within the Valley campus. The project aims to provide a new form of transit for the student community, grounded on the concept of clean transportation. The project is about the rental of bicycles through a cellphone application to active students and staff members at UFRGS, for internal use within the Valley Campus. Stemming from this concept, the present article weaves an analysis of the acceptance of internal bicycle rental and sharing at UFRGS, besides proposing actions for the improvement of its most relevant aspects. For the evaluation and possible realization of the project, it was decided to elaborate and apply a survey to 155 currently enrolled students at UFRGS, in order to identify categories of applicability and economic applicability. The survey is structured in three major phases: a diagnosis performed through the questionnaire, validation of the data and analysis of the obtained results. As a result, it was observed that students reported being late to classes throughout the academic term due to the distance between the main locations of the Campus as well as claimed that the use of bicycles is a time-saving and facilitating method. As such, the students agree to make a symbolic payment for the maintenance of the bicycles, as well as to utilize the cellphone application. The need for the implementation of the Ciclo Camp project in the Valley Campus could be verified based on the diagnosis. After conducting the analysis of the results, an action plan was put in place, based on the Golden Circle process, a concept developed by leadership specialist Simon Sinek in order to create and develop the value of new ideas through a simple methodology. For the studies on the scope of the usage of bicycles as sustainable means of transportation, it is suggested through this article that the bicycles for the Ciclo Camp project be made in the institution’s metallurgical laboratories out of scrap metal coming from UFRGS itself.
南里奥格兰德州联邦大学工程学院的教育工程-需求中心通过创新教学实践的发展来促进工程教育的持续改进和创新。2017/1年度“新生接待- UFRGS挑战”项目应运而生。从这个意义上说，NEED借鉴主动学习的概念，向新生提出了如何使UFRGS更具可持续性的挑战，使理论知识与实践联系起来成为可能。通过提出的挑战，Ciclo营地项目是由一群来自SE各种工程课程的新生开发的，他们建议在山谷校园内使用另一种内部交通方式。该项目旨在为学生社区提供一种新的交通方式，以清洁交通的概念为基础。该项目是关于通过手机应用程序向UFRGS活跃的学生和工作人员出租自行车，供山谷校园内部使用。基于这一概念，本文分析了UFRGS对内部自行车租赁和共享的接受程度，并提出了改进其最相关方面的行动。为了评估和可能实现的项目，决定对UFRGS的155名在校生进行调查，以确定适用性和经济适用性的类别。该调查分为三个主要阶段:通过问卷进行诊断，验证数据和分析获得的结果。结果，据观察，学生们报告说，由于校园主要地点之间的距离，整个学期上课都迟到，并声称使用自行车是一种节省时间和方便的方法。因此，学生们同意象征性地支付维修自行车的费用，并使用手机应用程序。根据诊断结果，可以验证是否需要在山谷校区实施Ciclo Camp项目。在对结果进行分析之后，根据黄金圈流程(Golden Circle process)制定了行动计划。黄金圈流程是领导力专家西蒙·斯涅克(Simon Sinek)提出的概念，目的是通过一种简单的方法创造和发展新想法的价值。为了研究自行车作为可持续交通工具的使用范围，本文建议Ciclo Camp项目的自行车由该机构的冶金实验室用UFRGS本身的废金属制成。
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Pub Date : 2019-03-15DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V5I2.55438
Cynthia Maria de Andrade Lima, Francisco José Costa Araújo, Karin Vanessa Cecílio Panadés
This article exposes the importance of training engineers who, since graduation, have in depth knowledge in both practical and theoretical areas of social, environmental and economic issues, including sustainability in its entirety. Through a bibliographical review of the existing materials in this context and the results obtained through researches, it was possible to confirm the theories addressed throughout the text. The pertinence of this article comes from the need to control the progress of the destruction of the environment that is directly influenced by the practice of the Engineering profession. The engineer, because of his active participation in the changes in the environment in which he lives, has increasingly felt the need to adapt to the new world reality, which requires, both socially and economically, the introduction of sustainability in the practice of the profession. From this, we have succeeded in researches that demonstrated, through data and graphs, the growing requisition of the economic market for environmental certificates such as ISO 14001: 2015, used in Brazil, which had its emission intensified around 544% in the period of 2016 to 2017. However, with a survey conducted at the Polytechnic School of Pernambuco, it was possible to note that only an average of 1.94% of the engineering curriculum is intended for sustainability education, thus confirming the importance of upgrading university programmes. In addition to this innovation in the faculties, it is necessary to live the principles of sustainability, as in the concept of "living laboratory", in which engineering undergraduate institutions become the means that allows and provides the insertion in the labor market , of a conscientious professional in relation to the sustainability pillars, including the social, environmental and economic spheres.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-15DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V5I2.54678
R. Alves, G. Júnior, J. Kunzler, A. S. D. S. Filho
The Clown Group – Engineers without Borders (Knowledge Connections) is a group of clowns formed by Engineers and Engineering students. The theoretical basis of the Clown Group goes back to the origins of Jerzy Grotowski's “poor theater” (1933–1999). Concerning the use of music, theater and dance to present and promote the pleasure of art, the Group values the interaction with the public and does not worry about the structural elements commonly characterized by the theater as stage and lighting. In this way, the Clown Group promotes a Humanistic Formation of its members by providing a development in the capacity of communication, contact with the external community and also the satisfaction, by allowing the art to be spread in a simple and effective way. The objective of this work is to analyze the importance of Humanistic Training in the professional and personal development of Engineers and Engineering students, treating as a special case the Humanistic Training linked to the actions of the Clown Group – Engineers without Borders (Knowledge Connections). As a hypothesis, it is expected that the experience of members and ex–members of the Clown Group can be proven through their training and presentations over the years. In order to evaluate the personal and professional development of members and ex–members of the Clown Group during the training process, a qualitative research was carried out, via an applied questionnaire, in addition to a documentary research by observation, in which data were collected through analysis and observation of photos and documents of the Clown Group. In addition, Artificial Neural Networks were used to correlate the members and ex–members based on the two applied researches. The members and ex–members of the Clown Group have experienced a major break in introspection, significantly improving their way of communicating with society. The members and ex–members presented an improvement in the way they relate to each other in a team, a fundamental aspect of an Engineer's professional life. The Clown Group presents itself as a very important action for Humanistic Training and the professional and personal development of Engineers and Engineering students. The diffusion of art in the academic and external community promoted by the Clown Group also allows the deconstruction of the stereotype that the areas of Engineering and the Arts cannot coexist.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-28DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V5I2.54716
Carlos Alexandre Gouvea da Silva, Edson Leonardo dos Santos, Douglas Antonio Firmino Pelacini
This article presents an overview of simulated education through computational tools. In recent years, educational institutions have been working even harder in the application of virtual teaching and learning environments, which are available to different undergraduate and technical courses. During the learning process, the student is invited to try out some forms of different subjects and learning contents. The use of technologies gained a great deal of space in these institutions in order to allow students to experiment different theories in practical settings. Simulators allow students to conduct hands-on experiments without the need for real environments, which consequently generates costs and also a planning effort. This paper presents a study of the application of software simulators in different technological courses. After the application of the simulators, the students were invited to answer a Quiz in order to understand the effectiveness of the use of the simulators in the learning of each one. Results show that students considered the use of simulators to be advantageous and important, but it is still not enough to suppress the use of practical classes in real environments.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-28DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V5I2.54735
Patrick B. Rodrigues, P. Novaes, Stephanny Conceicao Farias do Egito Costa
The assessment of the student's academic results is one of the most challenging tasks in education because it may be subjective, lack clarity and goals. In addition, many professors and institutions have a deficient comprehension of the assessments' purpose and have used the students' grades as a means to determine the reach of the educational objectives. Trying to address that question, the Circuit is an alternative form of assessment based on the interaction and cooperation between students that aims to verify the results of the learning process through ludic activities. This paper presents the results of applying the Circuit in Foundation Design, an undergraduate course of the 5th-year of Civil Engineering at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz - UESC, in Ilhéus, Brazil, in 2017. The professor decided to use the Circuit in this course as an attempt to enable the students to interact and share what they have learned with their classmates. By doing so, the professor considered the concept of the Zone of Proximal Development, from Vygotsky, assessing the students’ ability to deal with problems with the help of their peers and learn with them. The method, although containing many rules, was easy to apply. The students, divided into groups of three, were expected to create two reports based on data for one Standard Penetration Test – SPT - and one Cone Penetration Test – CPT. Each member of the group played a different role on the activity: the "engineer" produced the report; the "technician" completed the missing data of the tests; the "manager" corrected the final reports. After completing the activity, each student gave feedback on its negative and positive aspects and this information was used to compose the results. From the results, the method showed to be effective because more than half the students pointed out that it developed their sense of responsibility and was innovative. Conversely, it may have failed with respect to the distribution of time, what may have affected the results of the groups. Therefore, the method proved to be promising, but it still demands some improvements for subsequent applications.
学生学业成绩的评估是教育中最具挑战性的任务之一，因为它可能是主观的，缺乏清晰度和目标。此外，许多教授和机构对评估的目的缺乏理解，并将学生的成绩作为确定教育目标达到程度的手段。为了解决这个问题，Circuit是一种基于学生之间的互动和合作的评估形式，旨在通过有趣的活动来验证学习过程的结果。本文介绍了电路在基础设计中的应用结果，这是2017年巴西伊尔海姆斯圣克鲁斯大学土木工程五年级本科课程。教授决定在这门课程中使用电路，以使学生能够与同学互动并分享他们所学到的知识。通过这样做，教授考虑了维果茨基(Vygotsky)提出的“最近发展区”(Zone of Proximal Development)的概念，评估学生在同伴的帮助下处理问题并与他们一起学习的能力。这种方法虽然包含许多规则，但很容易应用。学生们被分成三人一组，要求根据一次标准渗透测试(SPT)和一次锥体渗透测试(CPT)的数据写两份报告。小组的每个成员在活动中扮演不同的角色:“工程师”撰写报告;“技术员”完成了测试中缺失的数据;“经理”修改了最终报告。在完成活动后，每个学生对活动的消极和积极方面给出反馈，这些信息被用来组成结果。从结果来看，该方法是有效的，因为超过一半的学生指出，它培养了他们的责任感和创新精神。相反，它可能在时间分配方面失败，这可能会影响小组的结果。因此，该方法被证明是有前途的，但在后续的应用中仍需要一些改进。
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Pub Date : 2018-12-28DOI: 10.5216/IJAEEDU.V5I2.54738
V. T. Sanches, G. G. Costa, J. F. M. Santos, T. Catunda
The students’ understanding about direct current electric circuits’ concepts has been extensively investigated in secondary schools as well as at university level. In the University of São Paulo (IFSC/USP), for more than 10 years, our group has been researching the Electricity and Magnetism laboratory course to Engineering students’. Similarly to reported in the literature, we observed that students often leave physics classes with less of an understanding of physics concepts than we had expected. In this paper we present an investigation of the difficulties that students in the Electricity and Magnetism laboratory have with current electric circuits' concepts and how that research was used as a guide in the development and evaluation of the guided-inquiry lab on these topics to help students learn these concepts better. Initially, we adapted a question developed by McDermott in 2006 and employed it to investigate students’ conceptual understanding of electric circuits in three states of Brazil. STEM areas were involved in this research and the question was applied after students attended to theoretical and laboratory courses. Students had to order light bulbs according to brightness in three different electric circuits to answer the question. Only ~13% of students answered correctly agree to result in other countries and it inspired us to restructure the laboratory guide from a course in our institution. Our new guide was inquiry-based with some activities adapted from Tutorials in Introductory Physics and others developed in a prediction-observation-explanation form. The same question was used as pre and post-test and the average percentage of students who got the maximum score was 47%. We also have been using the Determining and Interpreting Resistive Electric Circuit Concepts Test (DIRECT), which is composed by a 29-multiple choice questions, that can be grouped in conceptual objectives, allowing us identifying specific conceptual difficulties. We proposed many modifications in the students’ guide, after analyzing the questions, and some of them we managed to improve, like those related to resistance and current. On the other hand, less than 50% of students could answer correctly some questions related to the concepts of power and voltage in the post-test, even after our efforts to improve learning in this aspect. We have been able to help students overcome known conceptual difficulties with the proposal of new activities, but some difficulties still a challenge to be outgrown. This fact has shown us that research for improving practice is fundamental to overcome persisting difficulties and is a long-term and constant action. Also, using different resources such as homework activities on the internet, videos and computer simulations have shown to be useful tools as supplement materials.
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