Resumen de Teamwork in engineering training: the case of an intervention in a worker recovered factory in Brazil
Tarcila Mantovan Atolini, Francisco de Paula Antunes Lima
This study is the result of a research developed in the course of an intervention in a Brazilian Worker Recovered Factory (WRF) inBrazil performed by a team of fifteen engineers from different areas and levels of training. According to the principles of theErgonomics of Activity, the intervention sought to analyse and propose solutions to company problems from a participatoryprocess, which also includes workers at all stages of their development. We were able to analyse the intervention through directparticipation in the project as a member of the team of engineers (participant research), seeking to draw contributions onengineering training from practice in real situations (action research). The intervention showed the possibility of obtaining asupervised apprenticeship process, reducing complexity without losing touch with reality, creating conditions for students to learnby practice, and making mistakes without causing damage to the host company. This process showed that is possible to overcomethe purely theoretical formation of the engineer, allowing developing teamwork skills and the collective construction of emergingand socio-technically responsible solutions.
