The Rise of Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Education in the Era of Industry 4.0: Implications for Management Practice

Increasing interdisciplinarity and science interest on the undergraduate students: the use of an algorithmic ignitor and low-cost sensors in cloud computing

“…University of São Paulo is "the major institution of higher learning and research in Brazil, is responsible for educating a large part of Brazilian Masters and Ph.D's. "; furthermore, it also offers services to the foreign community, such as graduate and undergraduate programs and internship 5 . This work involved School of Engineering 6 (poli) founded in 1893 it is a traditional school with internationalization, which allows students to seek or obtain a double degree on two continents; in addition, poli has all branches of Engineering.…”

“…7 . It should be emphasized that the only restriction to the development 5 https://www5.usp.br/#english 6 https://www.poli.usp.br/ 7 It is common for a student to work under the supervision of a teacher. This process is called IC (Scientific Initiation)…”

“…The current interdiscipinarity, highly required and driven by Industry 4.0, stressed the definition of engineering fields to much broader concepts. As pointed out by Roy & Roy [5], the engineering field is much more than its core, "mechanical, mining/metallurgy, civil, electrical and electronics, and chemical", as defined in the 20 th century. Nowadays engineers would be ´Tshaped thinker´, deep in one field, but able to work across all field and able to communicate well"; therefore, mixing of engineering and biology/medicine created the Biomedical Engineering that leads to tissue engineering, "genetic engineering, neural engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, and bioinformatics".…”

“…Roy & Roy [5] Demonstrate that the result of the application of interdisciplinarity can bring evolution in all areas applied by its combination and the improvement of a certain area by introducing elements from another area.…”

Technology-enabled well-being in the era of IR4.0: marketing and public policy implications

“…In line with “bodies of technologies” (Arthur, 2009), we group technologies into digital, physical and biological domains. As noted previously, the boundaries between these domains are blurring (Roy and Roy, 2021), which complicates assigning any new emerging technology to only one area (Huang and Rust, 2018; Schwab, 2017). For instance, the physical domain is often mixed with digital, and human interactions are combined with nonhuman.…”