O perfil empreendedor dos alunos do curso de graduação em engenharia de materiais da UTFPR-LD: um estudo comparativo entre ingressantes e concluintes

Abstract

The student in the process of academic training in engineering acquires during the course of graduation wide knowledge and also develops skills, attitudes and behaviors that result in his professional profile. This construct can and have to go beyond to also encompass what the labor market demands. In this meaning, the promotion of entrepreneurship in universities aims to stimulate and develop the entrepreneurial spirit of students, for this component to be a key factor to put the student as able to face reality in the world of work. The background of the entrepreneurial profile must result from influences of the environment where the individual is inserted, and the university is one of the environments in which the individual, as a student, is and remains until this educational cycle ends. The aim of this study was to compare the entrepreneurial profile of the incoming students and the final students of the Materials Engineering Course of UTFPR Londrina in 2018, in order to verify the contributions that the university, as a whole, generated in the profile of entrepreneurial behavior of students. Therefore, the quantitative methodological approach was used. It was possible to reach the objective of establishing a comparative between the entrepreneurial profiles of the incoming students and the final students of the course. A questionnaire was used with multiple choice questions and open questions that allowed statistical analysis of the data. The bibliographic survey provided the construction of a list of categorization with the main entrepreneurial characteristics that led to the construction of the data collection instrument, where an evolution in the entrepreneurial profile of the graduating students in all the characteristics analyzed was observed. The characteristics with the highest degree of evolution were: commitment and determination; planning and organization; visionary; leadership and; accept risks. It was pointed out in the research that several disciplines taught in the Materials Engineering course, as well as several actions of PROEM - Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program of the University, are recognized as contributors to the development and maturation of the entrepreneurial profile of the graduating students of the research.