Proposta de projeto pedagógico do curso de engenharia de computação da UFSCar baseado em competências e atividades curriculares extensionistas

Abstract

The Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), in conjunction with the Center for Exact Sciences and Technology (CCET) and the coordination of the Bachelor's degree program in Computer Engineering, is, in accordance with the new National Curriculum Guidelines (DCNs) for Engineering and the "Guidelines for Extension in Brazilian Higher Education," promoting an adaptation in the course's pedagogical project with the aim of incorporating the vision of graduates' training based on the development of their technical and socio-emotional competencies and their extensionist activities. The objective is to provide an appropriate environment for the development of creative thinking, with a solid theoretical foundation, innovation capacity, and entrepreneurship of Computer Engineering undergraduates at UFSCar. In this sense, the Teaching Structuring Nucleus of the Computer Engineering course (NDE-EC) sought to incorporate these modifications through dialogue with course instructors, using an innovative strategy based on active learning methodology, and the institutional guiding principles of UFSCar, as described in its Institutional Development Plan (PDI). This work reports the adaptation of the Pedagogical Project of the Computer Engineering Course (PPC) at UFSCar by the NDE-EC, describing the approach used, which consisted of two distinct and subsequent moments in establishing the competencies related to the course, its implementation, and interaction with course instructors, as well as the approach used to include university extension in the course curriculum. The results achieved were consistent with the principles of the PDI and the resolutions/rules established at UFSCar regarding the new DCNs and the curricularization of extension, culminating in the development of a new PPC for the EC course that was submitted to the Undergraduate Pro-Rectory and is currently under review.