Engineering project driver: fostering innovation and core values in technology education

This paper relates important concepts for technological professional education: interdisciplinarity, social and environmental responsibility, skills, innovation and knowledge management.In dealing with human capital, we present the organizational culture and the organizations that learn.In seeking elements on the composition of an academic environment, in the elaboration of its guidelines and the formation of human capital for scientific and technological development, the model of the Scientist Needs Hierarchy was used.The objective of this work was to identify through a multiple case study how students of CEFET/RJ technological education use these concepts in their pedagogical practices.By encouraging these projects, HEIs can contribute to the formation of a new model of institutional culture, which is based not only on training excellent professionals, but on changing the behavior of individuals to more conscientious citizens.