Social Engineering Program Responding to Growing Economies Melany M. Ciampi President Safety, Health and Environment Research Org. - SHERO São Paulo, Brazil E-mail: melany@copec.org.br Claudio da Rocha Brito President Science and Education Research Council - COPEC São Paulo, Brazil E-mail: cdrbrito@copec.org.brr Rosa M. Vasconcelos President Pedagogical Council - University of Minho Guimarães, Portugal E-mail: rosa@det.uminho.pt Luis A. Amaral President Computer Graphics Center - CCG Guimarães, PORTUGAL E-mail: amaral@des.uminho.pt Victor F. A. Barros Executive Secretary Science and Education Research Council - COPEC São Paulo, BRAZIL E-mail: victor@copec.org.br Abstract—Following the new trend in education, more focused in a global perspective COPEC - Science and Education Research Council is offering an MBA, on line, in Social Engineering for all Countries of CPLP - Portuguese Language Countries Community. The goal is to cover these countries engineers that also are seeking for opportunities, as the majority are countries of growing economy based on their very rich resources. The idea of an on line program is the possibility of reaching a broader audience and at the same time to enrich the experience of offering and implementing a program that can disseminate ideas and concepts that fits to the needs of the target audience. The Education Research Team of COPEC is convinced that Engineers with the proper knowledge and skills can perform in order to solve social problems once engineers are problem solvers. Keywords - online education; science and technology; research; public economy; population growth. I. INTRODUCTION The present world, full of challenges and crises of deep consequences to society as well to the environment, has a strong incidence in terms of decision-making in any field. It means that it is becoming more and more complex and difficult to take decisions due to the fact that the implications are felt in a faster way and in a larger community. For engineers, the decision process is even more complex once the implications have serious impact not only to the target customers but also to the society as a whole and to the environment. This is an aspect that shows the necessity for engineers to search for the acquisition of an ability to respond to social necessities having in mind the cultural aspects when developing a project [1]. The effects of this aspect in engineering formation implies a different approach providing the future engineers a notion about policy, ethics and social sciences, which are so important to prepare them to the future work market that will require the respect and promotion of society and environment as assets. Most of social groups have ambiguous understanding about science and technology; some understand it as responsible for the environmental deterioration and the voracious capitalism and others as the ones responsible for the better quality of life with the improvement of health systems, agricultural production and other accomplishments. Both perceptions are not far from the reality. In any case, the impacts can be seen along the history and more recently with the sophistication of the so called “information society”. This particular “information society” shows how strong the impact of any technology introduced in the society can be. Real time communication and brutal amount of information available have changed drastically how people relate; make business and study [2]. The proposal of COPEC - Science and Education Research Council for next five years is the offering of MBA by Distance Learning due to the new global education demand. The new programs will be delivered in Portuguese in a first moment, for all Countries of CPLP - Portuguese Language Countries Community. The idea is to cover these countries that also are seeking for opportunities, as the majority of them are growing 978-1-4799-0152-4/13/$31.00 ©2013 IEEE 25-27 September 2013, Kazan National Research Technological University, Kazan, Russia 2013 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL) Page 22