Política de acompanhamento de egressos: oportunidade de aprimoramento do projeto pedagógico do curso de graduação em engenharia ambiental e sanitária da UFJF

Abstract

In order to advance in the understanding of how the implamentation of a policy of monitoring of graduates of a course can contribute to the improvement of the pedagogical project of this course and, consequently, to improve the quality of teaching, a case study was accomplished in the Environmental and Sanitation Engineering Course in the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (MG). For your qualitative nature, it was used as data collection instruments, interview - with professors of the course and internship supervisors – and the questionnaire applied of the graduates. In addition certain information was obtained from observation of the research, which is embedded in the analyzed environment. Additionally, in order to support the discussions bibliographic and documentary consultations were used. The discussion was made from to main themes – the administrative and pedagogical, understanding that the first does not materialize without other and vice versa. The obtained results pointed to the existence of a range of possilities of the use the collected information thought the monitoring of the egress in relation to necessary changes in the PPP to keep the students to date with the social, market and legal demands. Moreover, this monitoring proved to be an important management tool, since it has the potential to provide subsidies for the decision-making process inherent of the professors in universities play at the same time teaching and administration activities.