Caracterização do perfil profissional e percepção sobre a formação de egressos de Design - UFCG: uma avaliação do ensino.

Abstract

This research aimed to identify the professional profile of Design graduates at Federal University of Campina Grande, who earned their degrees between 2005 and 2014, under the pedagogic political project inaugurated in 2001. Moreover, it sought to analyze the perception of those graduates on the education received. Accordingly, this sequential exploratory study under a comparative perspective adopted a mixed focus and was accomplished in two phases. The first one consisted of a qualitative research on relevant issues to the study, which allowed the construction of a database for the development of the research instrument to the following phase. The second one utilized a survey to collect quantitative data using a self-administered questionnaire via the Internet, resulting in a respondent rate of 72%. Among the leading conclusions, it is stressed the identification of a greater number of activities carried out in jobs not connected to their former area of education, such as graphic design and interior design. Inaddition, there is an incompatibility between some of the areas covered in the course and the main areas performed by the graduates, unveiling a mismatch between the vocation of the course and the local productive vocation, as the vast majority of graduates worked in Paraíba. Finally, this research also brought to light the pedagogical practice of teachers, the poor application of projects to the regional reality, the little interaction with the job market and thelittle interdisciplinarity in the course as some of its major weaknesses. Nonetheless, graduates believe that, in general, their course was satisfactory to their professional practice.