Desenvolvimento de sistema de controle de precedências (SCP): Faculdade de Engenharia da UEM

Abstract

Education can be understood as the means by which the habits, customs and values of a community are transferred from one generation to the next. As mentioned in (Freire, 2003) education is “the constant process of knowledge creation and the search for transformation and reinvention of reality through human action-reflection”. Education is not only fundamental for an individual's cognitive development, but also essential for the development and prosperity of a nation, which is why there are several national and international initiatives for the massification of education in Mozambique and in the world. According to (Coombs, 1996) formal education is: “hierarchically structured and chronologically graded, which extends from primary school to university and includes, in addition to general academic studies, a variety of specialized programs and institutions for technical and professional training. in full time". During their academic life, students go through several stages of evaluation and generate a history that needs to be consulted later. Not far away, the Faculty of Engineering at UEM is an educational institution that has complained about the difficulties in controlling the academic history of its graduates, essentially in the use of this history for decision-making such as which courses the student can or cannot attend. As a way of simplifying the complexity of academic management, a technology solution called SIGA was developed. SIGA is one of the subsystems of the eCampus project developed by UEM, with the aim of supporting UEM in carrying out its mission, through several subsystems that together automate the functions of the Academic, Research, Administrative and Management areas. SIGA was designed for academic management in higher education institutions. It incorporates functionalities for the Management of Candidates for Admission, Enrolments, Teaching (Classes and absences), Issuance of Guidelines, Issuance of Documents (Certificates and Declarations), Communication with students (SMS, Email, Internal Messages), Expedient Management (Orders of Documents, Hearings, etc.), Management of Scholarships. Although SIGA incorporates a variety of functions to FEUEM, it feels the need for a platform that helps SIGA with precedence control. iBased on the need to control the student's academic record and decision-making based on the record, the present work aimed to develop a precedence control system to assist FEUEM. To fulfil the overall objective of the project, a review of the literature was used to consolidate concepts, case studies and documental research to understand the flow of processes at FEUEM with the aim of proposing a solution that fits the reality of FEUEM. Thus, it was possible to conclude that the proposed solution, in addition to streamlining precedence control, will improve the control of the academic path of FEUEM graduates.