O docente como agente de inovação tecnológica: um estudo de caso

Abstract

This work aims to identify the situations that have direct or indirect implication for the teachers from the Industrial Design Course in relation to the activity of Project coordination and also in relation to their intellectual production, registered in the Institution, with emphasis in technological innovation. This research used information about projects which were obtained through the access to institutional documents and to database reports from UFSM. A questionnaire directed to the teachers that belong to the Industrial Design Course was also applied. From the analysis of the surveys, and the reports from the questionnaire applied to the teachers, it can be concluded that the teachers master the subject “technological innovation”, but with regards to the legal questions on the scope of UFSM, it was found that most of them do not know they exist. Concerning the teaching and research projects coordinated by these teachers, the numbers of are quite expressive. As for the extension projects, they represent a small number. Regarding the teacher formation, diversity in the undergraduate formation can be observed, however, in the post-graduation formation it is centered in the area of Production Engineering. Thus, it can be observed that some measures might be taken, considering the situations mentioned above, as well as new aspects that were detected throughout this work. Therefore, the results obtained can be considered as a reference or an example to other units and teaching institutions.