Resumen de Celcom project: engineering practice via community networks in amazon
Brenda Vilas Boas, Marcus Dias, Pedro Batista, Aurenice Oliveira, Aldebaro Klautau
Concurrent technological, political, and economic events have led to increasing globalization of the world economy. Industry hasresponded to this transformation by redefining business strategies and new expectations for the set of skills required from collegegraduates, especially in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas. As a new generation of engineeringstudents get closer to graduate, they are challenged with important issues at local, regional, and global levels. The access toinformation and communication technologies (ICTs) as a tool for education, economic development, and social well-being is one ofthese important issues. In this paper, we share a Problem Based Learning (PBL) project focused on ICTs to teachtelecommunication technologies to engineering students. This project also has the goal to train and educate students inHumanitarian Engineering to improve the well-being of communities in the Amazon region of Brazil. The results demonstrate thatstudents participating in this PBL project develop a more solid technical background, research and design skills, critical soft skills,better perception of the telecommunication industry and a better understanding of the standardization bodies.
