Mapping of the undergraduate and graduate curriculumin industrial engineering in Brazil

• Autores: Patrícia Schrippe, Flaviani Souto Bolzan Medeiros, Andreas Dittmar Weise, Carla Hartmann Sturm, Jaíne Fatima Koschek
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 32, no. 3 (Parte A), 2016, págs. 1250-1259
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Brazil the number of public and private universities is increasing to improve the national development. In this way,undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Industrial Engineering have also increased. This paper aims to analyzeundergraduate and postgraduate courses in Industrial Engineering in Brazil. To do this, we considered the emphasis of theclassification, course, the geographical location and research areas. Methodological, a qualitative, quantitative anddescriptive study was developed, with the plan to collect data from a literature search of the data available on the websitesof the Brazilian Association of Industrial Engineering and the Ministry of Education. The study indicates that theirdistribution is heterogeneous and the quality is short of the market’s requirements.