The Media as a Complement of Engineering Teaching

Abstract: The world we live nowadays is a fast growing up world, and this is all because the quickness in which information is transmitted. In the great-engineered world, media is always publishing technology developments all over the wo rld, a general interest for anyone. These new technologies are widely spread among the media. For those who get to know them and do not understand properly the right use of innovations, it all became useless. Students also feel those difficulties, or rather only lack of teaching to raise the ability to understand the enormous opportunity of extra-curriculum knowledge in these innovations. This work will present a methodology rather simple, but also efficient, aiming the integration of the engineer with the society, in an attempt to make science and technology application more accessible nowadays. Starting from an activity that makes use of news from media (internet, radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, etc.), we wish to prepare students for a critical explaining sense, in a way to make them capable to thinking and discussing the new technologies developments together with the society. In the end of the work, the results will be presented based in the fuzzy model accomplished during the last two years in which the present work is been held