Empreendedorismo de impacto social no curso de engenharia química na ufmt – proposta de implementação de formação complementar

Abstract

Education and employability are directly related, and in a scenario of an economic crisis that has been spreading in recent years, unemployment rates are worrying and have shown to be high. Even though individuals with higher education offer lower unemployment rates, they have been occupying positions outside their area of training and with salaries below the average of professionals in the Engineering fields. In the Chemical Engineering context, the situation is not very different, of the professionals who work in the industrial sector, several are in administrative, commercial, or related positions, and the number of workers outside their training area is considerable. Those who have found a job reinforce the importance of extracurricular activities as complementary training. Due to that, some of the skills demanded today by the job market are entrepreneurial skills. Social entrepreneurship is already disseminated in some universities to create social impact enterprises or even intrapreneurship within large corporations. The present work describes a proposal to implement complementary training in social entrepreneurship in Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). For this, was developed a theoretical reference to understand the main entrepreneurial competencies and their form of teaching, and through empirical research through a self-perception questionnaire about graduation, expectations about the career, and interest in teaching social entrepreneurship. In addition, we used as reference the model of Projetão, a subject that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), to develop our methodology. Subsequently, the answers from the forms were analyzed, showing that there is a lack of extracurricular activities and opportunities in the job market in the students' perception. Because of this, a proposal was built to implement entrepreneurial education through the UFMT's Entrepreneurial Journey, involving all engineering courses at Cuiabá and Várzea Grande campuses.