UFSM-CS vai às escolas 2017

Abstract

The Federal University of Santa Maria - Cachoeira do Sul Campus began its activities in 2014 with five graduate courses: Architecture and Urbanism; Agricultural Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; and Transport and Logistics Engineering. The need of technological professionals to meet regional and national demand was considered at the UFSM-Cachoeira do Sul (UFSM-CS) conception. However, the population of Cachoeira do Sul and nearby cities do not know about the courses offered by UFSM-CS. In order to alleviate this problem, the program UFSM-CS goes to Schools is in operation, whose main objective is to present the courses offered by UFSM-CS to high school students in public and private schools. This project has been developed in two stages: in the first stage, a questionnaire about the previous knowledge of the school community about the UFSM campus is applied. In the second stage, a cycle of lectures in public and private schools to show the undergraduate courses in the Cachoeira do Sul campus is done and then a new questionnaire is applied to check if the lecture cycle has indeed encouraged these students to enter UFMS-CS and/or another institution. A statistical analysis of the data obtained through questionnaires is presented to support extension projects with the schools of Cachoeira do Sul and region. Results show that 80% of students intend to enter a higher education institution and 70% do not know which courses are provided by UFSM-CS. After the presentation of the seminars, 92% of the students told the seminars were enlightening.