Estabelecer um sistema eficaz para o gerenciamento das modificações do projeto Baja SAE da UTFPR-CT

Abstract

The student projects promoted by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) play a fundamental role in students’ transition to the job market, as they challenge students to develop engineering projects in real, practical situations. One of these projects is baja SAE, which aims to design an off-road vehicle to take part in competitions with similar vehicles. When analyzing the world scenario, it can be seen that Brazilian teams have not performed well. This difference with foreign opponents is due to several factors, but the main one is the lack of investment in project management and knowledge acquired over time. This deficiency hampers product development, leading to the repetition of failures rather than the use of lessons learned. This work aims to establish a model for managing project modifications for UTFPR-CT’s Baja SAE. To do this, a literature review on project management, knowledge management and change management is carried out. Next, the process involved in project development and modification processing adopted by UTFPR-CT’s Baja SAE project team (Equipe Imperador) is identified. To get an overview of the scenario as a whole, the results of the competitions are analyzed, including the overall scenario of the competitions and the performance of the team studied. With the information gathered, a suitable management model is proposed for managing project changes. The model currently adopted and the proposed model are evaluated through a simulation of a real change situation, taking into account criteria stipulated by members and former members. The proposed model achieved a score of 83.1%, while the current model scored 48.7%. This improvement represents 34.4% of the score obtained when comparing the models according to the evaluation criteria used.