Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

The Center for Educational Engineering – NEED of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil School of Engineering has fostered the continuous improvement and innovation of engineering education through the development of innovative teaching practices as its goal. The project “Freshmen Reception – UFRGS Challenge” was created in 2017/18 as proposed. In this sense, NEED, draws from concepts of active learning issued to the freshmen the challenge of how to make UFRGS more sustainable, making it possible to associate theoretical knowledge with practice. Through the proposed challenge, the Ciclo Camp project was developed by a group of freshmen from the SE’s various engineering courses, who suggested an alternative mean of internal transportation within the Valley campus. The project aims to provide a new form of transit for the student community, grounded on the concept of clean transportation. The project is about the rental of bicycles through a cell phone application to active students and staff members at UFRGS, for internal use within the Valley Campus. Stemming from this concept, the present article weaves an analysis of the acceptance of internal bicycle rental and sharing at UFRGS, besides proposing actions for the improvement of its most relevant aspects. For the evaluation and possible realization of the project, it was decided to elaborate and apply a survey to 155 currently enrolled students at UFRGS, in order to identify categories of applicability and economic impact.