As Novas Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais do curso de graduação em engenharia: fatores que levaram a sua elaboração e sua aplicação no ensino remoto

Abstract

Technological and socio-environmental innovations in recent years, it makes the job market demand a new profile of professionals, and therefore, to create these new professionals, the traditional educational systems need to be revised. Based on this, the National Education Board published in 2019 the new National Curricular Guidelines for Engineering Courses. Sometime after the publication, the Covid-19 pandemic forced Education Institutions to adopt remote education systems to continue their activities. In this context, this work seeks to present these new guidelines, analyzing the main change points concerning the previous guidelines, the data regarding the quality of education indicators and evasion rate to understand the reasons that led to the elaboration of the new guidelines, and how the remote activities developed to contemplate what is proposed by these new guidelines. For this, qualitative descriptive observational research was carried out, using bibliographical research, documentary research, and case study. It was found, through the analysis of dropout and teaching quality indicators, that there is a high evasion rate in engineering undergraduate courses and low student performance in the National Student Performance Exam, validating the need for new guidelines needed. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic complicate the implementation of the new guidelines, the case study presented showed that, even during this challenging period, it was possible to develop projects in line with what was proposed by the new guidelines.