Track: Engineering Education

Abstract

Engineering Education has been, as a part of the HRST, a significant factor according the OCDE in correlating to GDP. Previous studies demonstrate that the shortage of engineers in a country as vast as Brazil need to be understood in a microregional scenario and shows that the microregions with HEI´s are often the only ones that can leverage their development indexes (HDI_E and HDI_R). Not only are the differences in the country great on a region by region approach, but spillovers and HEI´s products need to meet local demands. Based on the bibliographical review and raw government and official data analysis this study concludes that there is a significant impact factor on a city ability to leverage its development if a HEI is placed and the spillover factor for the remaining cities of the same microregion is also present. This study also concludes that the quality of an HEI is also important to assess the amount of leverage it will be able to achieve.