International Conferences IN BRAZIL

Engineering and Technology Education

Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M.Ciampi

Council of Researches in Education and Sciences - COPEC

Av. Dr. Epitacio Pessoa, 248 - 33. Embare. 11 045-300 - Santos - SP - Brazil

cdrbrito@copec.org.brљљљљљ melany@copec.org.br

Vladimir G.Zakharov, Irina A.Avenarius

MADI State Technical University

Leningradsky prosp. 64, Moscow, 127829, Russia.

zakharov@crdf.ru

Alexandre Botari, Eudes José Arantes

University of Sao Paulo - USP

Av. Trabalhador Sãocarlense, 400 - Centro. 13566-590 - Sao Carlos - SP - Brazil

botari@sc.usp.brљљ љљarantes@sc.usp.br

The International Conferences in engineering and technology education in Brazil were promoting a wide discussion on Engineering and Technology in the present time and its perspectives for the future. The changes are fast and the information is globally available it becomes necessary to discuss and to bring solutions mainly about the problems related with Education. To form the professional of the future is more than to promote the citizenship, it is also to contribute for the constant scientific and technological development in the search of a better world for the coming generations. In many aspects this success is supported by a series of recent conferences intended to increase the role of national engineering education and to attract the recognized international organizations and institutions for mutually benefit cooperation. These forums were an excellent public's participation of engineering and technology areas. Universities, researchers and institutes of researches, world specialists of the areas, politicians engaged with the scientific and technological development of the countries, they are all gathered in these five events to discuss and to evaluate the last acquisitions of science and technology and its incidence in professional's formation as well as the last trends of Engineering and Technology Education in the world. Besides its social and cultural meetings with speakers from several countries allowed to the participants have a vision of the kaleidoscope that such current and interesting theme provides. In these events was going all to add efforts to give various contributions for the directions of the researches in this field having in mind the improvement of the society as a whole.

The International Conferences in engineering and technology education in Brazil was promoting a wide discussion on Engineering and Technology in the present time and its perspectives for the future. The changes are fast and the information is globally available it becomes necessary to discuss and to bring solutions mainly about the problems related with Education. To form the professional of the future is more than to promote the citizenship, it is also to contribute for the constant scientific and technological development in the search of a better world for the coming generations.

These forums were an excellent public's participation of engineering and technology areas. Universities, researchers and institutes of researches, world specialists of the areas, politicians engaged with the scientific and technological development of the countries, they are all gathered in these five events to discuss and to evaluate the last acquisitions of science and technology and its incidence in professional's formation as well as the last trends of Engineering and Technology Education in the world.

Its active participation in the work of various conferences and societies all over the world has considerably enhanced old educational traditions and formed a new generation of young engineers capable to resolve many acute problems of Brazil's national economy in the most efficient way. The educational policy of Brazilian government has played a decisive part in all these enterprises. The stability of the steady gradual rise of engineering education quality in Brazil is in many aspects caused by organizing regular interna-tional conferences where all vital and important problems of engineering education are being discussed in utmost open and lively atmosphere. Theoretical and practical issues are considered in sessions and workshops intended to give an immediate vocational training to young Brazilian educators participating in the event. In their turn, the young professors are eager for applying their newly acquired educative ideas and innovative initiatives to their local universities; and the regular conferences with a participation of recognized educators from foreign and national technical universities give a good basis for that.

The Council of Researches in Education and Sciences is constituted by scientists of the several areas of human knowledge and citizens committed with education.

Citizens and scientists who believe that education is the main beam in the construction of a better society and that also believe in research and in the development of sciences and technology as the big agents in the fostering of progress and the welfare of human being.

It is a council, which works have the goal to enhance and to maintain relations between universities, institutions of education, enterprises and the society of the several countries for the discussion of education, technology and sciences directions.

The history of COPEC has started with an idea shared by some professionals of sciences and technology. It was the idea of creating a non-governmental organization to foster the research mainly in education and sciences. This idea seized proportions and after some meetings the Council became reality.

Although very young this Council through its very active members has already a history of participations in scientific events in education and technology, also sponsoring conferences and developing projects since 1994, with the goal of enhancing discussions about education, technology and science congregating specialists of the five continents. It is a group of scientists, professors and professionals whose vision of future has driven them to start this work.

COPEC is an organization that works visioning the future. It works to stimulate and to foster the efforts to bring an international perspective in education. It aims to establish and maintain the interchange among institutions, educators of educational institutions in Brazil and in the several countries worldwide. It is a council that seeks the improvement of communication and the interchange of researches in education field and sciences between the countries. It also aims the development of an apprenticeship community and the development of education and sciences areas constituting in an intelligent way of collective knowledge for the integration with social and economic agents of community.

The council plans to accomplish its goals by means of:

-        Currents Conferences;

-        Planning segmented and united actions among schools for the development of projects of internal and external community interests;

-        Interchange programs; Projects e researches of supporting;

-        To work for the creation of conditions and the means for updating, development and the permanent re-qualification of professionals of the several areas of human knowledge;

-        And other means appointed by the Council or by an authorized organ.

In many ways it can be said that the gradual rise of engineering education quality in Brazil is caused by the organization of regular international conferences where all vital and important problems of engineering education are being discussed in utmost open and lively atmosphere. Theoretical and practical issues are considered in sessions and workshops intended to give an immediate vocational training to young Brazilian educators participating in the event. In their turn, the young professors are eager for applying their newly acquired educative ideas and innovative initiatives to their local universities; and the regular conferences with a participation of recognized educators from foreign and national technical universities give a good basis for that.