With innovative conception, engineering undergraduate courses implemented by UFRJ on Campus Macaé, under guidance and responsibility of the Polytechnic School, were chosen after a careful process of analyzing regional needs and understandings with companies, municipal government and local entities representing civil society

The option made by civil engineering courses, mechanical engineering and production engineering allowed to create a flexible structure that admits varied curriculum compositions based on the combination of disciplinary segments of these courses. The innovative character of the proposition of the courses presents itself under its main aspects:

• Disciplinary contents that extend the intellectual and technical-scientific horizon of engineer training and make it consider not only the strictly technological consequences of their professional doing;
• Disciplinary segmentation of curricular structures of courses, allowing the construction of distinct curricular compositions and skills and skills, based on the academically oriented interest of the student from the point of view of its future professional exercise.

Engineering courses should have, among its objectives, to train engineers with skills and skills for contents and methods that:

• Sejam suficientes para que possam identificar e delimitar, nos domínios de conhecimento de cada especialização, uma dada situação-problema, ou seja, um problema específico daquela "sua" engenharia; e sejam capazes de resolvê-lo;
• Are sufficiently broad and inter articulated so that they can recognize, in correlated domains of knowledge, of which other technical-scientific specialization, even beyond engineering, the given situation is also a specific problem;
  Can interact with their experts; More generally, allow them to identify which technical, technological, technological, environmental or socio-cultural implications inherent in the treatment of this problem.