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Analyzing Perceptions About the Influence of a Master Course Over the Professional Skills of Its Alumni: a Multicriteria Approach

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: This work proposes and applies an approach to evaluate perceptions about the effects of Professional Master's Degree in Engineering over the professional performance of their alumni. The proposal is based on a trichotomous outranking multicriteria method, called ELECTRE TRI (Mousseau et al., 2000). An application of the proposal has been made, catching the perceptions from students and professors of a Brazilian course of a Professional Master in Production Engineering, also from chiefs these students and coordinators of courses of Professional Masters of a similar range. The set of criteria was based on literature review and refined by opinions from specialists. The participants of the research were asked about their perceptions on importance degree of criteria and level of influence of the course upon the alumni' skills, from each criterion considered in the survey. The results obtained from each group were compared. Additionally a sensibility analysis was carried on the results.

Source: Pesquisa Operacional

DOI: 10.1590/0101-7438.2015.035.01.0187

Authors: Lívia Dias de Oliveira Nepomuceno, Helder Gomes Costa

Institutions: Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Language: English

Topic: Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico