The present paper describes the construction of a model to collect and analyze undergraduate students' perceptions about the effects of an Industrial Engineering program on its alumni skills. An application of the model was experimented over a sample composed by the students of a federal university, located at the southern region of Brazil. This sample was divided into two groups: one group composed by seniors and the other composed by freshmen, attending their first semester. The freshmen were analyzed in terms of their expectations on the influence of their major and the seniors were analyzed in terms of their perception of the influence of their major on their skills. The results show that both groups perceived positive impacts over their skills. The most positive impacts were perceived under the criterion of employability. The research also investigated the perceptions of the degree of importance of the criteria. The criteria perceived as most important are alumni's employability and ability to solve problems. Analyzing the results, one can conclude that the perception of the importance of the criteria was very similar for both groups, although the expectation of the impact of the program was higher than the perceived impact at the end of the program, in all criteria.
Evaluation; Industrial engineering; Perception; Students
