As principais causas da reprovação nos cursos de engenharia elétrica da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

This work was developed under the Professional Graduate Program in Management and Education Assessment (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policy and Federal University of Education Evaluation of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF), she was presented a case management which sought to discuss the main causes of failure among students of Electrical Engineering course at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The overall objective of the research was: understand the issues surrounding the failure in Electrical Engineering courses UFJF. And the specific objectives are: (i) describe the problem of failure in electrical engineering courses in UFJF; (Ii) analyze the main causes of failure in courses of Electrical Engineering; and (iii) to present an Educational Action Plan aimed at minimizing this problem in the course of Electrical Engineering. The main research findings pointed to a set of causes that could be grouped into three dimensions: the individual dimension, associated with lack of dedication of students to study; the contextual dimension, associated with lack of basic content domain of mathematics and physics; the institutional dimension, curriculum organization of the subjects was little relationship between theory and professional practice associated with excess credits in some periods, how teachers teach classes and lack of physical structure in academic units. The final presented the Educational Action Plan, aimed mainly measures that may contribute to the reduction of failure in engineering courses, consisting of the creation of the educational support service to students of the course, creation of leveling courses in physics and mathematics, creating a forum to discuss the curriculum of the course, didactic training course offering for teachers who work in the course, creating the discipline of higher education methodology to students of the PhD program in Electrical Engineering