A New Approach To Engineering And Technology Education And The New Pedagogy

A new Pedagogy has emerged as a consequence of a new educational paradigm. This new pedagogy preaches the commitment of family, society and educational institutions. SENAC School of Engineering and Technology has implemented a Telecommunication Engineering Program that contains in its curriculum what is called “Free Period”, which is in according to the new paradigm of education. The students have a free time during the week when they can attend classes in one of other SENAC units. They can attend as many courses as they want at least one per two years. They are free to choose among the many options like environment, fashion design, nursing, photography, media design and others. At he end of each period they present a report about their development, which is evaluated by a council compound of a psychologist, a pedagogue a professor of engineering and the coordinator of the program. The goal is to form engineers with a vision to the future, a professional that is able to see the opportunity without loosing the perception of human dimension and how much it implies in a search for answers of the several challenges of engineering. At the end of the program the students have solid knowledge of basic science courses, basic engineering courses and specific engineering courses, besides the experience acquired with the development of projects in partnership with enterprises.