INTERTECH’2002 –

International Conference on Engineering and Technology Education

Santos – SP – Brazil

Paper title: INTEGRATION OF BASIC SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING – A COMPLEX APPROACH FOR INNOVATIVE ENTRY LEVEL COURSES DESIGN

Author : Clara Amelia de Oliveira

INE-CTC-UFSC

ABSTRACT: The present paper describes a pedagogical experience on introductory disciplines in Computer Science and Engineering domain, on University Courses. The Object Oriented Paradigm is the chosen tool to support knowledge representation. It contributes to treat object of study as complex one, facilitating the integration between Basic Sciences and Engineering applied domain. This integrative approach faces aspects from a generic thematic of study till contents, usually placed under isolated fresh curriculum disciplines. An emergent question is how curriculum can, positive way, be affected by those educational environment changes? Some conclusions are derived, from this experience, indicating that harmonic relations, between those knowledge categories, can be pedagogic profited by, both, students and teachers.

KEYWORDS: Computer Science Discipline, Object Oriented Representational Paradigm, Integrated Aspects, Basic Sciences, Engineering, Complex Approach.