The Ministry of Economy and Technological Innovation in the Madrid Region and the Official College of Industrial Engineering of Madrid, under the policy of promoting innovation in the Madrid Region, created the "Portal of ...

This communication reports the analysis of the most important economic and business activities in Sierra Norte (Madrid) and its formative needs at a local level. Its main objective is to identify formative necessities at ...

Following Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) standards, an analysis of the state of the art related with Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions of road projects is developed with emphasis on the inventory assessment, the existing data ...

The introduction of the new European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requires lecturers change or adapt their subject teaching plans and they have to apply a competency-based approach in different engineering degrees (industrial, ...

The European Union (EU) and Mexico share finance resource allocation and management models at local level for social and economic cohesion of their regions. Local Action Groups (GAL, for their Spanish initials) are included ...

The difficulty of prevention theories existing to explain the tragic accidents during the years 70-80 (Tenerife airport, shuttle Challenger, Chernobyl, sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise, King's Cross fire, ...) have ...

The Spanish food industry is the high industrial subsector, both the business volume, and the number of jobs. In 2008, the data indicate that sells for 16.4% of total net sales for the entire industry that employs over ...

Public buildings (hospitals, commercial centres, ect.) have inherent risks coming from the unknowledge of the users about the building itself. They don´t know the building planes, where the emergency doors are, etc. Those ...

Creativity is a field in which there are different techniques for the problem resolution. This field is more important in the conceptual design stage for its relevance in the creation of original products. However, most ...

The technique known by the name of "Brainstorming" is commonly recognized and recommended by the standards of management as one of the most important in identifying risks. The "Brainstorming" is used mainly as group technique ...