Engineering Education and Global Economy in Five Centuries of a Nation

The starting point of this paper is the discussion of present status of engineering education in the Country. It is the result of a research made by a group of researchers of COPEC - Council of Researches in Education and Sciences, which has been looking for new strategies of action for the next five years. The goal is to provide new programs and projects in Engineering and Technology for applications that encounter the real necessities of society. For that, it was necessary to get an integrated vision of the several variables of its historical process like social, political, cultural, scientific and others. Sustainable development with social promotion of individuals and society has been the constant search of scientists, educators and some politicians of this Nation called Brazil