DocumentCode
1920524
Title
Social Engineering Program to promote civilization process
Author
Ciampi, Melany M. ; Brito, Claudio Da Rocha
Author_Institution
Organ. of Researches in Environ., Health & Safety
fYear
2008
fDate
22-25 Oct. 2008
Abstract
COPEC-OPASS educational program design team has designed an engineering program with the objective to form engineers to act in more effective and accurate ways in order to solve social problems and avoid future ones. It is a social engineering program, under graduation, five years duration, full time students, it is based on the humanities and social sciences such as philosophy, psychology, and, especially, economics, and thus deals with theories concerning the basic laws of humans and society. The objectives of the social engineering program are to educate advanced researchers and administers who work in areas related to policy, design and planning in national land and socio-economic systems and to develop the integrated theories and methods of these areas. It has been designed in a way to satisfy the education law of the country. This innovative curricula, teamwork approach, and leadership-building experiences will develop the engineering leaders of tomorrow. The design and implementation of this program comes to add to the efforts of the different sectors of the community to solve the social problems, which have been perpetuated by decades such as environmental issues, overpopulation, and the raising urban problems.
Keywords
educational courses; engineering education; social sciences; socio-economic effects; COPEC-OPASS educational program design team; civilization process; environmental issues; humanities; leadership-building experiences; social engineering program; social sciences; socioeconomic systems; urban problems; Brazil Council; Design engineering; Educational programs; Environmental economics; Government; Health and safety; Humans; Psychology; Sustainable development; Teamwork; leadership; philosophy; social problems; socio-economic systems; teamwork approach;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008. FIE 2008. 38th Annual
Conference_Location
Saratoga Springs, NY
ISSN
0190-5848
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1969-2
Electronic_ISBN
0190-5848
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FIE.2008.4720442
Filename
4720442
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