Track: Engineering Education

Abstract

Curriculums play an important role in academic production, in managing investigative dynamics between various departments and in creating synergy within different areas of study. They are also an important factor in asserting competence and enforcing challenges that derive in both national and international standards, which in turn guarantee high standards in the classroom. In this context, being able to trace curriculums becomes fundamental in identifying information in aspects such as: content tracking, written academic production, syllabus evaluations, managing networks of knowledge, and tracing the future impacts that predominant content will have on a national level as a result of the student body and their prospective. Through this investigation we will present the construction of a model that tracks curriculums through technological systems, taking into account process variables like resources, materials and both cultural and social influences in order to facilitate the study program’s visualization, tracing and control mechanism. The investigation looks to construct traceability indicators that are easy to use in order to observe and monitor the content’s impact; as well as decision making regarding technological surveillance, the creation of future outlines and lateral ways of thinking. All of this based on a specific case of study.