WHY ENGINEERING STUDENTS GIVE UP IN THEIR FORMATION: A CASE STUDY

Historically, engineering courses have a very sharp evasion, characterized as a major problem in the training of engineers. This article seeks to understand the main reasons students dropout in engineering courses. For such a study was done with quitter students in Engineering Courses offered by the Federal Technological University of Parana - Campus Ponta Grossa. The research is descriptive and documentary. The analysis was conducted from a survey of dropout reasons, distributing them into groups: personal, family, social, economic and academic. It is concluded that among a medium of academic reasons cited for more School children drop, 29.5 % opt by another course in New University, 26.6 % another course using SISU or PROUNI and 15.2% indicate a "not tailoring the course. Most of the interviewed report that give up because they joined initially on a course that was not their first choice or who did not identify with it. Among the students surveyed, 86% dropped out in the first year. To minimize this phenomenon, it is suggested insertion of practices, technical visits, classes in laboratories in the first year, vocational preparation in high school.