DesENCrenca: a PBL experience on Project Management education

This paper reports the experience of the students of Group 1 of the discipline Project Management and Multidisciplinary
Teams (“Gestão de Projetos e Equipes Multidisciplinares – GEPEM – in Portuguese) developed during the 2020.1 academic
semester of the University of Brasília. The GEPEM discipline uses active learning methodologies, focusing on the Flipped
Classroom and Project-Based Learning. The project aims to improve the access of students of civil engineering and
environmental engineering courses to the information of the subjects offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering and assist them in the process of assembling the grid of disciplines to be studied in the school period. For this,
all stages of product development were carried out, from market research (via questionnaire and focus groups), to the
delivery of a prototype. The team organized and worked in a format adapted from Scrum and used project management
concepts learned in the classroom during the semester. The final product consisted of an interactive panel, fed in real time
by questionnaires intended for students, in order to centralize information of interest to students, such as degree of
difficulty of the subjects, evaluative methods and perception of effort demanded, assisting in the personal organization of
students of civil and environmental engineering courses. During the process, it was remarkable the improve of productivity
and direct application of the study in the classroom, so that all members of the group considered the discipline satisfactory
and obtained high mentions in the evaluation by the teacher.