Collection

2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Claudio Brito; Melany Ciampi

important to be able to adapt to any different culturalenvironment.Another fact, which is not new, is that many engineering students have a lack of knowledgeabout what being an engineer really means. The first 3 years are particularly intense and hard. Apossible way to improve their perception about the profession is to implement a new kind ofcourse, more enticing and dynamic. This is one of the proposals of COPEC’s engineeringeducation research team: - to embed a course with a more interesting activity for students,sooner, in the first year. It is a short-term workshop in order to show students the possibilities ofperforming as engineers in a global environment – a project developed for a private university inorder to reduce retention rate among