PCPskt: jogo de empresas destinado à qualificação de alunos de engenharia de produção

Abstract

Business game aim to provide learning in a practical and playful way, as well as serving as a training tool for professionals and future professionals. In this paper it was developed a business game related to an industry that produces three types of skateboards, considering production and finance specifically, aiming to train industrial engineering students. The game simulates an environment in which five companies compete each other to dispute a market that has a specific demand for each type of skate, so players will have to manage the financial and material resources to get more profit at the end of all periods . Modeling is done mathematically and programmed in Microsoft Excel 2007, and was applied to students who were attending industrial engineering. The results showed that the use of business games provides a better learning to the participants, due to the competitive and dynamic environment in which students are included, that encourage them to make better decisions intending to get victory.