APLICACIÓN PRÁCTICA DE METODOLOGÍAS DIDÁCTICAS DE TRABAJO EN GRUPO EN INGENIERÍA INDUSTRIAL DENTRO DEL ESPACIO EUROPEO DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR

Abstract

With the new study programs in the European Higher Education Area, arrangements and didactical strategies are planned for improving students’ level of competence. The objective is to improve the magisterial classes and exercises solving system, evolving to a social constructive model that adds knowledge through experience, interaction with teachers and good supports. For that, a methodology that includes activities head for working group is developed, the communication of information and the use of material of several signatures to achievement of a project of pieces manufacturing for the construction of thermical engines. Group works are created in subjects of different courses in the studies that belong to several areas of the Section with very specific goals of each signature focus the main problem. Students solve problems that normally happen in the pieces manufacturing, designing by CAE, optimizing and analyzing their mechanical and thermical behavior trough finite elements, defining their manufacture process and finally making their mechanized. In this way practical classes are made with motivated students, with a real and practical vision of the subject in a social interactive environment. Keywords: European Higher Education Area; CAE; didactical; teaching methodology; thermical engines.