Title :
Manufacturing engineering graduation program for 21st. Century
Author :
Brito, Claudio Da Rocha ; Ciampi, Melany M.
Author_Institution :
Council of Researches in Educ. & Sci., Brazil
Abstract :
This work constitutes of a brief presentation about the manufacturing graduation program that attends the new demands of a challenging global world. It is about the COPEC Institute of Education and Research New Graduation Program: The Manufacturing Engineering (ME) Program. It has been specially designed in order to fulfill the lack of formation of dedicated professionals to work hard with the goal of promoting the development of Manufacturing (and Management) researches. The main objective of this program is to empower manufacturing engineers to operate at a higher level of efficiency and effectiveness. Manufacturing is still a big employer and it tends to be a very visible one in many places.
Keywords :
educational courses; engineering education; further education; production engineering; COPEC Institute of Education and Research New Graduation Program; employers; manufacturing engineering graduation program; master degree; professionals; Brazil Council; Computer science; Control engineering; Educational programs; Engineering education; Engineering management; Environmental management; Industrial engineering; Manufacturing; Materials science and technology; customized program; flexibility; manufacturing; master degree; team work;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009. FIE '09. 39th IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4715-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0190-5848
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2009.5350780