O presente trabalho apresenta uma abordagem para avaliação de percepção quanto ao impacto do mestrado profissional sobre o perfil de seu egresso. A proposta foi aplicada a uma situação específica por meio de questionário, elaborado a partir de aspectos garimpados na revisão bibliográfica realizada, para coleta de dados entre alunos, chefes desses alunos, professores e coordenadores de mestrados profissionais classificados na área de Engenharias III pela CAPES. Os resultados obtidos na aplicação da proposta permitiram identificar as percepções dos participantes da pesquisa quanto ao grau de importância dos critérios utilizados no questionário e o nível de impacto do mestrado profissional sobre o desempenho dos seus egressos. De forma geral, os chefes apresentaram uma visão mais otimista e os docentes foram mais exigentes quanto ao impacto do curso no desempenho dos alunos. Além de contribuir na construção de indicadores que permitam avaliar os impactos do mestrado profissional no perfil dos seus egressos, os resultados deste trabalho também podem subsidiar a coordenação do curso participante da pesquisa na tomada de decisões inerentes a seu aperfeiçoamento contínuo.

Os mestrados profissionais se constituem na modalidade mais recente de pós-graduação stricto sensu no Brasil e apresentam novas dificuldades quanto à sua avaliação. O presente trabalho apresenta uma abordagem baseada na avaliação de lacunas de percepção quanto ao impacto do mestrado profissional no desempenho profissional do seu egresso. A metodologia foi aplicada em uma situação específica com coleta de percepções de egressos e seus chefes na organização onde trabalham, sobre a influência de um programa de mestrado no desempenho de seus alunos. Os resultados mostraram que os participantes da pesquisa perceberam um maior impacto do curso nos aspectos que versam sobre a "autoestima" e o "perfil de pesquisador" do pós-graduado.

This work proposes and applies an approach to evaluate perceptions about the effects of Professional Master's Degree in Engineering over the professional performance of their alumni. The proposal is based on a trichotomous outranking multicriteria method, called ELECTRE TRI (Mousseau et al., 2000). An application of the proposal has been made, catching the perceptions from students and professors of a Brazilian course of a Professional Master in Production Engineering, also from chiefs these students and coordinators of courses of Professional Masters of a similar range. The set of criteria was based on literature review and refined by opinions from specialists. The participants of the research were asked about their perceptions on importance degree of criteria and level of influence of the course upon the alumni' skills, from each criterion considered in the survey. The results obtained from each group were compared. Additionally a sensibility analysis was carried on the results.

Highlights: This paper describes an original proposal for modeling Multicriteria problems taking into account more than one evaluator. It allows each evaluator to have its own set of criteria. It also avoids the incoherency of adopting compensatory techniques into non-compensatory algorithms. Goal: This paper describes an original proposal for modeling multicriteria situations where multiple evaluators take part of the evaluation process. This proposal allows each evaluator to have its own set of criteria, including their weights, and also avoids the usual inconsistency of adopting pre-processing compensatory methods for introducing it into non-compensatory algorithms. Design / Methodology / Approach: In order to better describe how ELECTRE ME works, a multicriteria-multiple evaluator situation is modeled by ELECTRE TRI ME (as we have called the ELECTRE TRI variation that incorporates the principles of multiple evaluators). Results: ELECTRE ME was able to avoid the inconsistency of adopting contradictory mechanisms of aggregating preferences while modeling multicriteria & multiple evaluators problems (first called here as MCDA-ME). Limitations: Although the proposal focuses in situations with multiple evaluators, there is no restriction for its application in situations where there is only one decision maker. Practical implications: Another important feature of ELECTRE ME is that it allows each evaluator to consider its own set of criteria and its own scale for evaluation. Originality / Value:  ELECTRE ME avoids a contradictory approach to use compensatory algorithms (such as weighted mean) as an input in non-compensatory outranking methods. Despite the fact that non-compensatory principle is in the heart of the ELECTRE methods, it has not found a previous proposal with the attributes shown in this study: to incorporate outranking concepts in situations where more than one evaluator is present and, by extension, allow each evaluator to have its own set of criteria.

This work proposes a nonlinear model and also a solution method to improve