A new teaching tool on the European space for higher education: Fusion of laboratory and research results

  1. García, A.S. 1
  2. Espinosa, A.V.P. 1
  3. Lorza, R.L. 1
  4. Calvo, M.A.M. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Libro:
Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011, REES 2011

ISBN: 9781627481847

Año de publicación: 2011

Páginas: 235-243

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84883101860 WoS: WOS:000393815900022 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Resumen

A new approach of educational methodology is presented to improve both laboratory practices in Materials Science and workshop tasks in Mechanical Manufacturing subjects. This educational experience is raised to merge two compulsory subjects in the new Mechanical Engineering Degree from University of La Rioja. The three principal objectives are as follows: 1) increase the number of students taking interest in practices, 2) eliminate the recurrence of basics concepts between different subjects in the new degree, and 3) encourage the student participation in the research work of professors involved in the mentioned disciplines. The experience is based on the development of a set of working practices in both the Materials Testing Laboratory and Manufacturing Workshop. All practices are also related to the research lines carried out by professors in these Areas of Knowledge. The groups consist of 8 students: 4 students are from the compulsory subject of Manufacturing, and the rest are from Materials Science. This educational methodology is scheduled in the next two years of the new Mechanical Engineering Degree, but we present the first results testing in a pilot study.

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Información de financiación

The authors would like to thanks for the financial support to the "Direccion General de Investigacion" of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the project DPI2007-61090, to the "Universidad de La Rioja" and "Banco Santander" for the project API11/13, and to the European Union for the project RFS-PR-06035. Finally, the authors also thanks the Autonomous Government of La Rioja for its support through the 3 degrees Plan Riojano de I+D+I for the project FOMENTA 2010/13.

Financiadores

  • Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
    • DPI2007-61090
  • Universidad de La Rioja
  • Banco Santander
    • API11/13
  • European Union
    • RFS-PR-06035
  • Autonomous Government of La Rioja
    • FOMENTA 2010/13