1. 1 Teacher In Service Program “Engineering in the Classroom” The RIO DE JANEIRO Experience CORDOBA 2008

2. 2 BRAZIL Overview of Brazilian Education System Basic Education – 9 years (normally starting at the age of 6) – Public Schools – Municipality Medium Education – 3 years - State (some Federal Schools, generally related to Universities) Also Technical Education Superior Education – 5 years for Engineering – Federal Government In all levels – There is also a Private System

3. 3 BRAZIL Overview of Brazilian Education System l Exam to enter in the University (Vestibular) l At the moment Engineering courses are requested by many students due to the economic growing l Courses like Law, Administration, Odontology and Communication are also very requested

4. 4 BRAZIL Recent Initiative Program to Promote and to Enrich Engineering (Programa de Promoção e Valorização das Engenharias - PROMOVE) Public Call MCT/FINEP/FNDCT – PROMOVE – Engineering in the Medium Education 05/2006 Implementation of innovative projects to promote the interaction between Engineering Sciences and Medium Level Education ( 15-17 )

5. 5 2006-2007 l Boston (R1) l Indianapolis (R4) l Memphis (R3) l Kuala Lumpur (R10) l Cape Town (R8) l Piura, Peru (R9) l Student branch pilot l Rio de Janeiro (R9) l Baltimore (R2) l Dallas (R5)

6. 6 TISP in Region 9 l 17-18 August de 2007 l Rio de Janeiro l Hotel Sheraton ( Av. Niemeyer ) l Financially suported by IEEE EAB

7. 7 Reaching Region 9 members Article in NoticIEEEro Flyers in three languages

8. 8 Attendance

9. 9 Brazil l 35 from Rio de Janeiro l 10 IEEE members ( 3 GOLD ) l 21 pre-university educators ( 5 speakers ) l 3 university educators ( speakers ) over 17 schools represented l 1 concerned father ( Elect. Eng. )

10. 10 Build a better candy bag Rotational Equilibrium

11. 11 Feedback l Overall Program Rating 4.57/5 average 97 % of the respondents rated the program either “excellent” or “good”

12. 12 Did we reach the objective ? How likely were you to work with teachers/students/schools/school systems prior to this training? # % Definitely3340.8 Maybe2935.8 No4 4.9 Not Answered1518.5 Totals81 100.0 How likely are you to work with teachers/students/schools/school systems after coming to this training? # % Definitely5972.8 Maybe22.5 No0 0.0 Not Answered 2024.7 Totals81100.0

13. 13 Joint work

14. 14 NEXT STEP l Workshop in Rio de Janeiro at CEFET l CEFET is a technology oriented Medium School (Federal) l Has a Professional Master on Teaching of Sciences and Mathematics l Has great iteration with other schools l Takes part of a PROMOVE project l The workshop is scheduled for October 4 th l Expected 80 participants