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Using simulation to leverage digital transformation of SMEs: a European perspec...
Ramos, Isabel; North, Klaus; Thalmann, Stefan; Aramburu, Nekane; Hermann, Andreas; Gräslund, Karin; Barros, Victor Freitas AzeredoDigital transformation is one of the main challenges that SMEs face nowadays. Nevertheless, to a great extent, they lack the necessary capacities and skills to introduce and apply technologies that can support digitalization. As a design science approach, researchers from different European countries have carried out the collaborative research project VOIL to collect and scientifically develop resources and too...
Plenary: the challenges of education in engineering, computing and technology w...
Brito, Claudio R.; Ciampi, Melany M.; Feldgen, Maria; Clua, Osvaldo; Santos, Henrique; Barros, Victor Freitas AzeredoThis plenary is about a recent endeavor of IEEE Education Society - the IEEE World Engineering Education Conference - EDUNINE that has the goal to happen in Region 9, Latin America. The 2020 edition theme is 'The Challenges of Education in Engineering, Computing and Technology without exclusions: Innovation in the era of the Industrial Revolution 4.0'. The main objective of the conference is to provide innovati...
Engineering education program promoting the profession
Brito, Claudio R.; Ciampi, Melany M.; Vasconcelos, Rosa; Amaral, Luis; Santos, Henrique; Barros, Victor Freitas AzeredoMany Engineering colleges have been facing the retention issue because of difficulties and lack of knowledge about what really means being an engineer. The first 3 years are particularly intense and hard. A possible way to overcome this period is to implement a new kind of course, more enticing and dynamic, which is the idea of COPEC´s engineering education research team, to embed a course with a more interesti...
A positive perspective to implementation of a gender equality plan: a question ...
Barros, Victor Freitas Azeredo; Vasconcelos, Rosa; Araújo, Emília Rodrigues; Amaral, Luis; Ramos, IsabelThis paper describes the initial steps of a project developed with the aim of fostering diversity and the gender equality at the University of Minho, with a particular focus on the school of engineering. The project follows the actionresearch method, starting by gathering the perspectives of the various organizational participants (academics, nonacademics, researchers, and students). The insights emerging from ...
International experiences and the implications for the success of engineering p...
Brito, Claudio R.; Ciampi, Melany M.; Santos, Henrique; Vasconcelos, Rosa; Amaral, Luis; Barros, Victor Freitas AzeredoThe working midst has become challenging due to the multicultural environment and the need of skills such as cultural understanding, are very important in the formation of an engineer. It has been like this for many years however, now more than ever. So, for engineering schools, internationalization has become, on top of others, another demand for the accomplishment of a good program. It became necessary to pro...
Global experiences for engineering programs
Brito, Claudio R.; Ciampi, Melany M.; Barros, Victor Freitas Azeredo; Santos, Henrique; Vasconcelos, Rosa; Amaral, LuisThis paper has the goal to present and discusses the internationalization process of a university starting by the engineering programs that the engineering school offers. The objective is to make it more attractive and promote the double diploma in order to higher the quality of the programs.
Modo deadline: uma análise sobre o tempo das mulheres académicas
Araújo, Emília Rodrigues; Barros, Victor Freitas AzeredoAo relacionarmos o tempo na academia e na ciência em uma perspectiva de género como condição/pressuposto de partida, são inúmeras as questões que se levantam e que ultrapassam os indicadores atuais relativos à comparação entre a situação dos homens e das mulheres na academia e na ciência. O grau e valorização das unidades curriculares, cargos, áreas científicas, perfis e temas de investigação, as modalidades de...
Information systems and organizational memory: a literature review
Barros, Victor Freitas Azeredo; Ramos, Isabel; Perez, GilbertoThe advancement of technologies and Information Systems (IS) associated with the search for success in the competitive market leads organizations to seek strategies that assist in acquisition, retention, storage, and dissemination of knowledge in the organization in order to be reused in time, preserving its Organizational Memory (OM). The Organizational Memory Information Systems (OMIS) rises as an enhancer of...
Using social media as organizational memory consolidation mechanism according t...
Barros, Victor Freitas Azeredo; Ramos, IsabelIncreasingly, organizations are aware that the knowledge generated in organization is a primary factor to remain competitive in the market. The Organizational Memory (OM) conceptualizing how the process of creation, storage and dissemination of knowledge over time can influence the actions and decisions of the organization. For this, it is necessary that the attention of individuals to be targeted and aligned, ...
Engineering impacting social, economic and working environment
Brito, Claudio da Rocha; Ciampi, Melany M.; Vasconcelos, Rosa; Amaral, Luís; Barros, Victor Freitas AzeredoEngineers create, design and build, bringing solutions to problems and transforming the environment for betterment of life. Engineers are responsible for the development of science and technology once they design tools, systems and instruments that make possible the acquisition of knowledge in a vast amount of fields. Engineering is responsible for the deep transformation of human relations in the first decade ...