Avaliação da técnica de Design Thinking pela percepção dos acadêmicos da UTFPR-MD

Abstract

Over the years, companies realized that technological superiority or excellence in performance was no longer enough to gain market advantage, in this sense there is also the need to rethink the methodologies associated with innovation. Design Thinking rises in this context of intense changes where creativity and innovation are essential for today's competitiveness. In this way the training of the engineering academic and the learning processes in the last ten years has been studied with some depth, the main objective is to align the learning processes with the demand that the job market requests. Innovation is present with great intensity in this demand, and the National Confederation of Industry points out in a recent study that the components present in most curricula of engineering courses in Brazil do not meet the expectations of the Brazilian labor market, which requires a professional with characteristics innovative and enterprising. This work aims to propose a workshop for students from all periods of the UTFPR - Câmpus Medianeira production engineering course to foster entrepreneurship and innovation, using the concepts of Design Thinking. In order to obtain the results an applied research was carried out with exploratory objectives and qualitative approach. The data collection for this research was done through the application of a questionnaire before and after the workshop with objective and discursive questions. As a synthesis of the results obtained in the research, it can be observed that Design Thinking is still a new topic in the academic world, including among teachers, who in their view need to explore new learning methodologies with a focus on innovation. On the part of the students there is a lot of interest in acting in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship, the motivation to seek to know more about Design Thinking was evident during the workshop, which allows students to seek new opportunities to obtain a good professional and personal future.