Curriculum analysis of Production Engineering courses in Brazil and their relations with the areas defined by ABEPRO

Abstract

The Engineering course curriculum varies across the world. In Brazil the goal is to prepare the professional to have a broad vision of the field. The curriculum is divided in basic and professional cycle. The basic cycle introduces knowledge in mathematics, physics, chemistry and computation with few variations. The professional cycle focuses on multidisciplinary disciplines inherent to the specific training of the engineer in each area, and is completed with the presentation of a final project work. In this context, this article aims to construct a comparative table of curriculum of Production Engineering courses in the main public education institutions of Rio de Janeiro, that are some of the most important and prestigious institutions of higher education in Brazil. The description of every mandatory discipline in the institution's framework was analyzed and the results shows that the curriculum is influenced by the technological advances, mainly by the field of information technology, and the presence of the marketing area in the professional performance in the companies, characterizing the multidisciplinarity of Production Engineering.