Benchmarking 10 Engineering Courses of the Federal University at Bahia, Brazil
Benchmarking 10 Engineering Courses of the Federal University at Bahia, Brazil
Purpose – The main objective of this article was to find improvement factors for the 10 engineering courses offered at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) through benchmarking with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
Methodology – This paper is framed as Applied Research of a Case Study addressing a Quantitative and Qualitative Research. After studies about benchmarking and continuous improvement the benchmark was defined. The indicator chosen was ENADE over the evaluation cycles of the Preliminary Course Concept.
Findings – Analyzing 2019, the average Continuous CPC of the 8-engineering courses evaluated by UFBA was 3.237, while for the same courses at UFRGS the average was 3.483. This indicates that UFBA’s engineering courses are 7.60% behind UFRGS courses. But between 2017 and 2019, the average Continuous CPC of EPUFBA’s courses showed a growth of 8.04%, while EPUFRGS showed a decline of 3,59%. To lever up the quality of the courses, the most important items to be improved are pedagogical organization; school’s infrastructure, especially in technical laboratories; more postgraduate courses derived from each engineering; reviewing of the curriculum of all courses offered.
Research limitations – To deepen the analyses, it is intended to make visits to the courses that were used as benchmarks, an important part of benchmarking process.
Practical implications – The work will be of great value to improve the 10 courses studied, aiming at a better position in the next evaluation cycle of Enade, 2023.
Paper type: Case study
Benchmarking, Engineering courses, UFBA, Improvement.
