International Conference on Engineering Education – ICEE-99. Anais- CD Rom. República Checa, 1999.

An analytical key aspects study on multidisciplinary

course design – an integrative approach

DE OLIVEIRA, Clara Amelia

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC

Centro Tecnologico / Departamento de Informatica e de Estatistica - CTC / INE

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Abstract: The present paper describes theoretical to application Educational aspects, considering an Integrative Analytical Approach. The proposal is due from experience on design of several disciplines on Computer Science and Engineer Courses. It is presented a perspective, concerning essential aspects on Education. For this, it was selected some relevant topics, named Key-ones, for a definition - discussion. Those Operational Aspects (the ´ What to consider ´ ones) are supposed to generate deep interference on Implementation Proposals (the ´ What to do ´ ones). Those definitions contributes for a wide discussion of new trends on Engineering Education, causing some changing on nowadays status, through a mobility direction Integrative Educational Environment.

Opening this Educational Key Word Analytical Lexicon, it is to be described the Education concept, whose language expression facilitates new possibilities of vision, based on its dynamics aspects. Then, other Key definitions, as Disciplinary Design, and some more specialized employed terms, as Multi-disciplinary, After -Disciplinary, Inter and Trans-disciplinary, are proposed. This focus study emphasize relations between each one of these terms, and the respective Educational Paradigm, present behind. So, some essential design aspects appears, as Generalized Vision, on Course Level. On the other side, appears the Specialized Vision, on Disciplines Level. The necessary synchronicity, between, minimum, those two levels, are pointed out. After this, it can be, aggregated and traduced, a concept of Ecology of the System, exactly the same from nature processes. Additional topics as the deep internal level leading with Human Emotion, or, same way, up- grade level to Social Perspective on Education are also very important but both studies are out of scope here. Finally, it comes the Thematic Selection, as point of convergence on Project Oriented Vision on Engineer Courses. So, the, one or more, elected Thematic, used as reference, contributes to increase Flexibility on Design Patterns, since established several levels of abstraction, as natural consequence on Education Evolutionary Practice.

Recommendations are postulated, on Trans-disciplinary Implementation Actions. This Integrated Approach, is certainly in accordance with Engineering hopes on Education.