| Seminars |
Teaching in seminar format, in which the student participates very actively in the evolution of the classes deepening in a specific subject, expanding it and relating it with contents oriented to the professional practice; including the participation in scientific and/or informative events , organised or not in the own School; the organisation of debates that allow sharing ideas and proposals, guided by lecturers; and the study of cases/analysis of situations (analysis of a problem or real case, with the purpose to knowing it, interpreting it, resolving it, generating hypothesis, diagnosing it and going deep in alternative procedures of solution, to see the application of the theoretical concepts in the real World). These activities can have related a load of autonomous work of the student.
The subject "Seminar on Engineering and Society", and related debates, are taught following this methodology.
Competencies worked: with this methodology we work the competencies CB3, CG7, CG9, CG13 and CT4 |
| Project based learning |
Realisation of works for the resolution of a case or a specific project, as well as the presentation of the results by writing and/or by means of a presentation that may follow different formats: oral, poster, multimedia. They include the integrated Methodologies: problem-based learning, resolution of design problems proposed by lecturers, and project-based learning (PBL) education.
Teams of students will be defined, according to the outcomes of a personality test that the students make in the first session. The aim is to attain heterogeneous groups selected externally, as in a real company. The projects in which groups will work are related among them and are focused in a specific field of study familiar tot he students. For this academic course, we are in conversations with AENA so that the study environment could be the Airport of Vigo.
The students, in groups, work towards providing a solution to a clear-cut problem according to the Design Thinking methodology, identifying situations of the daily life that a priori may not relate to the Telecommunication. Design Thinking develops through the following phases: discover, interpret, ideate, experience and evolve. The solution achieved will have to consider no only technical questions, but also legal, environmental, social and related with sustainability.
By applying the Design Thinking methodology, a specific challenge will be dentified within the field of study, and all the information available relagted to that challenge will be gathered. The students will pose imaginative solutions and will treat to build a proposal that is reasonable, although it may not be still implementable given the current technological development.
The aim is not to manufacture or program a solution, but to look for a proposal that is feasible, now or in the future when technology is more developed, and that it is acceptable socially.
The groups will begin for locating all relevant information. From that information, they will try to identify the people involved and will try of empathice with them, to identify the actual problem that they feel. From the problem identified, groups will try to produce technological or procedural solutions. They will have to look for technical and scientific information and, finally, elaborate a prototype, a report and a presentation.
The result of this activity may be documented through an online service, forum or wiki. Also it will produce a final document and a presentation and/or video that was used in the defence of the work developed in front of the class. Both results will according to the criteria collected in evaluation rubricsm which will be presented to the students at the beginning of the course and will be available at the University's e-learning platform.
The interaction with lecturers will be carried out in five 1-hour sessions, and through forums during the research of information, and by email for the exchange of ideas. The groups will have to send to the lecturer in charge the "point of view" before the third session, and three ideas to resolve the challenge before the fourth session.
The subject "In a Multidisciplinary Society" corresponds with this educational methodology.
Competences worked: CB3, CE15/*GT1, CG9 and CT4. |
