PERCEPTION OF PROFESSORS OF A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY UNIT IN RELATION TO THE APPLICATION OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN DAY TO DAY ACTIVITIES BY ENGINEERING COURSE ALUMNI

Abstract

The Contemporary World improvingly requires High Quality Standards of Products and Services offered to consumers. To guarantee such Quality Standards, Companies need Labor that not only have knowledge about Quality Management Tools, but also have Quality as a Life Principle. In the case of Engineers, that is a necessary skill not only in Professional but also Personal Life. Namely, it is Imperious that the Engineer applies Quality in a Practical Manner in all the developed activities, both professionally and personally. Therefore, it is imperative that the Culture of Quality is incorporated to its life. Thereby, normally in the Engineering Students formation process, Quality is a subject apprehended in one or more Semesters, but its practice is not always required during the course of their formation. The object of this article was to evaluate to what extent the University requires from its Alumni the practical application of Quality Skills in its everyday activities, taking as a basis a Unit of a Public University located in the Paraiba Valley. For this Paper some Professors of the Engineering Courses of that University were interviewed, and structured surveys were applied with objective questions to all the other Professors in the referred Institution. In the elaboration of the Surveys the Likert Scale was applied, due to its relevance in this type of Survey, with questions numbered from one to five, being one to the answers with little Adherence and five to those with Total Adherence. It is intended to contribute with the Learning Process doing an Evaluation of the current Didactical Practice of the Course in relation to the application of Quality Principles in the Daily Activities of the Students. The Teaching Body of the Unit’s perception is that even though the Students are obliged to attend to a discipline focused on Quality Management Tools, in the Daily Life, there is no demand by the own Professors in the activities conducted by the Students.