9. Narrowing the Gap Between Software Engineering Teaching and Corporate Environment

Currently, there is a gap between university education in the area of software engineering and the corporate and industrial environment. In this way, it is necessary to explore new learning models to transmit complex knowledge more quickly and interconnect these different environments. For that, the STEPES-BD was developed on the first half of 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. In this project, the students have put into practice some concepts from three different undergrad and graduate courses of Computer and Electronic Engineering in the Area of Informatics of the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica – ITA) in Brazil. To approach these different worlds, it was used the Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning (IPBL), the Scrum Framework (SF), and also several emerging Information Technologies of public domain. This article aims to present the main results obtained by students in just one semester of 17 weeks, in a collaborative and cooperative manner, allowing them to implement a computer system prototype to help solve a real-world problem of managing health information for the COVID-19 Pandemic. In this article, it is described how the IPBL, the SF, its ceremonies, roles, and artifacts were adapted. The assessment of students experience in the STEPES-BD Project was carried out using the Tuckman Model, extracting quantitative and qualitative results, comparing the results achieved with related works, and acquiring students’ perceptions through project-end questionnaires.