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Integrative Learning toward Social Responsibility in Teaching Engineering
Domingo A. Martín-Sánchez (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas y Energía, Spain), Ana García-Laso (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Ana Muñoz-van den Eynde (CIEMAT, Spain), Emilia H. Lopera-Pareja (CIEMAT, Spain), María Cornejo-Cañamares (CIEMAT, Spain), and Emilio Muñoz-Ruiz (CIEMAT, Spain)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0024-7.ch011
Abstract
Technical University of Madrid, within the Spanish context, has profited of the introduction of a System of Internal Quality Assurance to build a road on the grounds of previous work on the culture of ethics in engineering. This way may drive the students training to incorporate in their curricula instruments leading to the recognition and acquisition of social responsibility. The road is paved with various educational elements, either mandatory such as the Mentoring project (aiming to minimize the gap in the transit between high school and university from a logistical point of view), or optional such a set of three: Monitoring (a system of academic support for improving the performance of in the students in their learning outcomes when face difficulties), Service Learning and Social Entrepreneurship, Ethics and Values in Engineering. This strategy combined with the convergence to the European Higher Education Area allows the selection of students able to integrate in their professional assets the idea and the commitment of making the human development more sustainable.