Teaching Drawing in Engineering Courses in Santa Catarina State – Brazil

The purpose of this research is to identify the disciplines’ participation which are related to the drawing teaching in 74 engineering undergraduate courses in the Santa Catarina State, and to figure out what are the disciplines’ focus in their 19 modalities. We have opted for an analysis in the curricular grid’s use for these courses in order to spot which disciplines work with contents related to drawing’s teaching, and, after a data collection, we have tabulated them and grouped them by the disciplines’ similarity in 4 groups, namely, G1 – Descriptive Geometry; G2 – Technical Drawing; G3 – Emphasis in Software Use; G4 – Emphasis in the Modality. We have concluded that the disciplines participation is, in average, 83.5 hours, which represents 2.04% of the total number of hours of the courses. Also, we have evidenced that there is, in these disciplines, a tendency to privilege contents which are focused in the software use rather than disciplines that will develop competences like space vision, space intelligence and creativity. Index Terms – Teaching, Drawing, Engineering.