Semestre i as an Active Methodology to modify the Teaching-Learning Process in Engineering

摘要

This article aims to show the design and implementation of a curricular innovation within an academic program of industrial engineering. The innovation relies on actively introducing a training partner, from the productive sector, in the classic teaching-learning process. While the training partner proposes a real problem of your company, a teaching support teamreorganizes the curriculum to replace a full semester of courses with a project that incorporates that problem. Thus, an educational experience is designed where the teaching, learning, and consulting processes merge through a real-world problem. The generated learning environment gives rise to a new paradigm on the ways of building and applying, in real-time, knowledge, disciplinary competencies, and attitudes naturally linked to a workplace. The teaching-learning-consultingtriad, the product of curricular innovation, is the cornerstone of the proposed learning environment, decentralizing the teacher and the school from the classic teaching-learning process. The implementation of this methodology, called Semestre i, significantly improves disciplinary and transversal competences in engineering students, by following the developed evaluation model.