On the Integrated Professional Practice in a Computing Course Towards Innovation

The integration of disciplines in higher technology courses is a significant challenge. Sometimes the student can not visualize the correlations between different knowledge in the direction of a complete formation. This paper shows an integrated professional practice that relies on an innovation discipline to discover and prospect new technological products. From this, technical disciplines can focus on developing such products, having as supporting the knowledge and capacities determined in their curricula. The results show that students were able to develop products that aligned with local and regional problems, as well as open up a possibility for the creation of startups based on the developed products.