Name: MÔNICA NOGUEIRA DE MORAES
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 07/05/2018
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
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| GISELE DE LORENA DINIZ CHAVES | External Examiner * |
Summary: Nowadays, more than technical knowledge are required from engineers, being
required professionals with a holistic vision and entrepreneurial skills. But people are
not born with management skills, and project managers end up being shaped by their
own experiences. The students enters the job market with little practical experience,
and teachers can reduce student insecurity and provide a skills development
environment through experiential methodologies. Different strategies are being
employed to achieve this type of learning, and games are one of the ways to develop
skills using the individual's own experience. The use of "serious games" enables the
student to learn in a simulated environment with their own experience. Several
analogic and virtual games were developed to teach project management or
engineering disciplines. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a
board game that teaches project management in a context of road construction in an
interdisciplinary way. The game simulates a network of roads with real problems,
WHERE the player must manage the project and the construction of one of the highways,
to gain practical experience of project management and to learn beyond the technical
aspects of Engineering. The construction and evaluation of this game considered three
aspects of serious games: reality, purpose and immersion. The evaluation of the game
was done through the application of questionnaires to the players before and after the
plays. The questionnaires also verified that skills, in addition to decision making, can
be developed through games. The results showed that the current board game is
capable of teaching content, improving managerial skills, engaging players and
bringing them closer to the reality of the context under study. Through this research
was modeled a game for engineering education, which can also contribute to
organizational learning in companies, open space for discussion among professionals
in the areas involved in the game and provide a different way to develop managerial
skills in professionals and students of project management and road infrastructure
projects.
