Providing professional skills to telecommunication engineers through a novel vertical approach
- Javier Domingo Carmona Murillo
- Miguel Ángel Martín Tardío
- Juan Arias Masa
- Juan C. González Macías
- Pedro José Pardo Fernández
- Juan Francisco Valenzuela Valdés
ISSN: 0949-149X
Año de publicación: 2014
Volumen: 30
Número: 6
Páginas: 1645-1656
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: The International journal of engineering education
Resumen
The new context of the European Space of Higher Education and the current social environment marked by new technologiesimplies that new Telecommunication Engineers must be trained not only in technical knowledge but also in the professional skillsthat they must use in their professional lives. Some learning methodologies, such as Project-Based Learning help develop theseskills. This paper presents projects developed in order to teach and assess different skills. The methods used change depending onthe year of the academic program. The projects have been designed to focus on ‘‘process skills’’: The ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team, understanding of both professional and ethical responsibility and the ability to communicate effectively. Theprojects have been assessed through multi-source feedback combined with the use of rubrics to facilitate the evaluation. Accordingto the results, most of the objectives have been achieved. Student satisfaction is very high, as the survey results demonstrate.