Formative Research in the Mechanical Engineering Program – UFPS and the Impact of Research Seedbeds

Abstract

The identification of investigative actions within a work group is carried out through the planning of projects that students develop cooperatively and collaboratively where they acquire skills in a specific or multidisciplinary field, offering innovative and alternative solutions to problems detected in their environment and society. The participation of the students is key to the analysis, which occurs autonomously where they acquire skills such as "Knowing how to learn", "Knowing how to be" and "Knowing how to do". The formulation of projects is substantially considered the possibility of making project-based learning viable and problems that, through the guidance of research teachers and students who are part of research groups, manage to develop proposals that meet needs in the intellectual and scientific society as a result of the investigative and comprehensive training process.