Educação tecnológica e indústria 4.0 (i.4.0): agendas e tensões a partir dos pressupostos cts
Resumen
Industry 4.0 is a new concept of industry in which automation, cyber-physical, Big Data and
Internet of Things systems predominate. It's the context of smart factories that can predict errors
and fix them automatically without human intervention and with a virtual cloud factory copy
for security reasons. With that, more unemployment and the extinction of many professions are
already announced. The market starts to demand new professional skills, challenging, above
all, education with a technological bias. It questions, on the one hand, the role of universities
(training for the market?), and, on the other, the education model required to face the challenge
(instrumental or Citizen education?). This bibliographical and documentary study analyzes the
Institutional Development Plan and the Pedagogical Projects of UFRGS courses (Automation
Control Engineering; Production Engineering; Computer Engineering; Electrical Engineering;
Chemical Engineering; Physical Engineering; Civil Engineering ; Materials Engineering;
Mechanical Engineering; Environmental Engineering; Metallurgical Engineering;
Administration; Public and social administration; Public policies; Social sciences; Public
relations; Regional development), in light of the STS approaches, confronting the demands of
I.4.0 and training profile provided by the university. This is a case study with a comprehensive
method, data collection and analysis. The results show that a multidisciplinary profile is
required to meet the demand of Industry 4.0; and that the university has an important role in
reducing the impacts that the socio-professional disruption foreseen with the implantation of
the Industrial Revolution 4.0 could cause in society. It is understood the university, committed
to the society in which it is integrated, plays the role of observer of the dynamics of society,
that is, it observes socioeconomic, sociocultural, sociopolitical, technological, environmental
changes and acts in a way that offers answers to the different problems affects and challenge
society. In the confrontation between “demand and supply”, there are disconnects between the
interests of the market and the professional profile that the university promises to deliver to
society, despite the prevalence of the instrumental character of the training processes in
progress.
Keywords: 1. Industry 4.0; 2. Automation; 3. Science, Technology and Society; 4. Role of
universities; 5. Technological Education
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