Tecnologias de informação, trabalho e formação de engenheiros projetistas: implicações para as relações de saberes e com o saber profissional

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Paula Bamberg
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação em Engenharia; Trabalho de Engenheiros Projetistas Estruturais; Tecnologias de Informação; Inovações tecnologicas; Qualificações profissionais; Ensino profissional; Engenheiros Formação; Educação e trabalho
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUOS-AVGFS4

The Engineering Education has evolved over time, but it still has a long path to go. The essence of this research is based on the issues concerning the relationship between changes in the work processes of structural engineers due to the increasing use of information technology, conditions that have contributed to the increase of the intellectualization of their activity and challenges to their formative period. I tried, this way, to explore the changes that are necessary in the training process of these professionals in order to put them up to the current societal demands. I adopted a qualitative methodology and exploratory research strategy. Thirteen structural engineers with professional experience between the years 1962 and 2002 were interviewed. The computerization of the structural projects offices occurred in the 1980s was taken as a milestone. Two groups of respondents were taken into account: the first consisting of the respondents graduated before 1980 and the second includes those who graduated after that date. The interviews were conducted following a script built on the constitutive relationships with the knowledge: relationship with the time; relationship with the symbolic systems, relationship with the type of activity, relationship with themselves, relationship with the world and relations to others. After gathering data, I proceeded to the analysis of that data by means ofqualitative analysis method guided by the collective subject discourse. The results confirmed the great potential of using information technology for the intellectualization of work and of the structural design engineer, observing, however, certain prerequisites, are in the type of work organization and educational processes. This thesis is expected to bring teachers and students to engage in discussions on issues involving Engineering Education, which will generate information, meanings, sense and new knowledge, subsidies necessary for critical review and creative renewal of the structural engineering teaching.