Tensión Creativa aplicada al Análisis de Competencias a Alumnos de Ingeniería

This article reflects the analysis of personal and social competences through the study and analysis of creative tensión in engineering students, using a computer application called Cycloid. The main objective was to compare the students' creative tensión by asigning them the task of being the project leader of a given project: their own university major. The process consisted of evaluating, through special surveys, a group of students to know the current situation of competences, using fuzzy logic analysis. From this self-knowledge, provided by the survey, students can know their strong and weak characteristics regarding their study habits. Results showed that tolerance to stress and to language courses are the weaker points. This application is useful for the design of study strategies that students themselves can do to better face their courses

Engineering Geology for Society and Territory: volume 2: landslide processes

This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with Landslide processes, including: field data and monitoring techniques, prediction and forecasting of landslide occurrence, regional landslide inventories and dating studies, modeling of slope instabilities and secondary hazards (e.g. impulse waves and landslide-induced tsunamis, landslide dam failures and breaching), hazard and risk assessment, earthquake and rainfall induced landslides, instabilities of volcanic edifices, remedial works and mitigation measures, development of innovative stabilization techniques and applicability to specific engineering geological conditions, use of geophysical techniques for landslide characterization and investigation of triggering mechanisms. Focuses is given to innovative techniques, well documented case studies in different environments, critical components of engineering geological and geotechnical investigations, hydrological and hydrogeological investigations, remote sensing and geophysical techniques, modeling of triggering, collapse, runout and landslide reactivation, geotechnical design and construction procedures in landslide zones, interaction of landslides with structures and infrastructures and possibility of domino effects. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: environment, processes, issues, and approaches.

Trabajo de embarque

Práctica de embarque em el "Coco IX”, es un yate privado a motor propiedad de la empresa Iberostar Hoteles y Apartamentos S.L, con bandera española y lista 7ª. Tiene como puerto base el Club de Mar situado en la ciudad de Palma de Mallorca.

Cardiac tissue engineering by electrical stimulation with subcutaneous and cardiac adipose-tissue derived progenitor cells (ATDPCs)

A major challenge of cardiac tissue engineering is directing cells to establish the physiological structure and function of the myocardium being replaced. In native heart, pacing cells generate electrical stimuli that spread throughout the heartcausing cell membrane depolarization and activation of contractile apparatus. We ought to examine whether electricalstimulation of adipose tissue-derived progenitor cells (ATDPCs) exerts phenotypic and genetic changes that enhance theircardiomyogenic potential.

Students’ viewpoint on engineering subjects taught in English

The European Educational Institutions have the challenge and the commitment to enhance multilingual competence and teaching curricular subjects in a foreign language is seen as one of the most promising alternatives. In that context, professors teaching different engineering subjects at the School of Engineering of the UPC at Manresa (EPSEM) have been involved in projects aiming at analyzing the current linguistic situation and developing some on-line open access materials using CLIL as a strategy. They formed the u-Linguatech Research Group on Multilingual Communication in Science and Technology in order to provide such resources in an effective and efficient way. In this paper, we focus on students’ perception of the improvement of their multilingual competence throughout their Engineering degree, by means of subjects taught in English by non-native speakers. Data about the English level of current students are taken into account. We also describe the use of the above resources to improve the quality of subjects learning related to Chemical Engineering curricula.

The unfathomable secret remains: a reverse engineering study of SEO factors on Google's search engine

The vast majority of users don’t seek results beyond the second page offered by the search engine, so if a site fails to be among the top 20 (second page), it says that this page does not have good SEO and, therefore, is not visible to the user. The overall objective of this project is to conduct a study to discover the factors that determine (or not) the positioning of websites in a search engine.

International journal of engineering education

This work presents an analysis of the assessment tools used by professors at the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya to assess the generic competencies introduced in the Bachelor’s Degrees in Engineering. In order to conduct this study, a survey was designed and administered anonymously to a sample of the professors most receptive to educational innovation at their own university. All total, 80 professors responded to this survey, of whom 26% turned out to be members of the university’s own evaluation innovation group (https://www.upc.edu/rima/grups/grapa), GRAPA. This percentage represents 47% of the total GRAPA membership, meaning that nearly half of the professors most concerned about evaluation at the university chose to participate. The analysis of the variables carried out using the statistical program SPSS v19 shows that for practically 49% of those surveyed, rubrics are the tools most commonly used to assess generic competencies integrated in more specific ones. Of those surveyed, 60% use them either frequently or always. The most frequently evaluated generic competencies were teamwork (28%), problem solving (26%), effective oral and written communication (24%) and autonomous learning (13%), all of which constitute commonly recognized competencies in the engineering profession. A two-dimensional crosstabs analysis with SPSS v19 shows a significant correlation (Asymp. Sig. 0.001) between the type of tool used and the competencies assessed. However, no significant correlation was found between the type of assessment tool used and the type of subject, type of evaluation (formative or summative), frequency of feedback given to the students or the degree of student satisfaction, and thus none of these variables can be considered to have an influence on the kind of assessment tool used. In addition, the results also indicate that there are no significant differences between the instructors belonging to GRAPA and the rest of those surveyed

A virtual mathematics learning environment for engineering students

Teachers of the course Introduction to Mathematics for Engineers at the UOC, an online distance-learning university, have designed,developed and tested an online studymaterial. It includes basic pre-university mathematics, indications for correct follow-up of this content and recommendations for finding appropriate support and complementarymaterials. Many different resources are used,depending on the characteristics of thecontents: Flash sequences, interactive applets, WIRIS calculators and PDF files.During the last semester, the new study material has been tested with 119 students. The academic results and student satisfaction have allowed us to outline and prioritise future lines of action.

A Virtual Mathematics Learning Environment for Engineering Students

Teachers of the course Introduction to Mathematics for Engineers at the UOC, an online distance-learning university, have designed and produced online study material which includes basic pre-university mathematics, instructions for correct follow-up of this content and recommendations for finding appropiate support and complementary materials.

Proyecto de construcción y puesta en marcha de nueva explotación de cebo porcino para 4.000 plazas en el término municipal de La Puebla de Castro (Huesca)

Aquest treball intenta explicar, de forma detallada, tots els materials, obres i processos que s’han de dur a terme per a la construcción d’una nova explotació d’engreix porcí. L’explotació que es projecta tindrà capacitat per a 4.000 places, i s’ubicarà al terme municipal de La Puebla de Castro, província d’Osca. Es tracta d’un projecte d’enginyeria on es descriu el disseny i el càlcul de les diferents edificacions i instal·lacions que formaran part de la futura explotació. Alhora, es realitzen diversos estudis com el de l’impacte ambiental o el de protecció contra incendis, per a complir el que estableix el Codi Tècnic de l’Edificació; i poder sol·licitar la llicència d’activitat per posar en funcionament l’explotació.

Juego educativo enfocado al desarrollo de habilidades para aprender a modelar requerimientos con artefactos UML

El siguiente trabajo describe los resultados de una experiencia práctica con un juego serio llamado: 'Modela', dirigido tanto a alumnos de Ingeniería de Software como a los profesores que trabajen en esa área, con la intención que practiquen cómo modelar requerimientos con casos de uso y el modelo correcto de un diagrama de caso de uso.

La continuidad de una obra medieval: azud, acequias, molinos y pesquera del Bajo Ebro en la época del Renacimiento

La cita que sirve de título a este epígrafe introductorio es del picapedrero aragonés Sebastián Martínez. Forma parte de un informe, redactado en 1556, sobre la construcción de una acequia en el margen izquierdo del Ebro. Y parece ser que pese a la voluntad del maestro muy poca gente, experta o no en el arte del"livell", ha sentido la necesidad de conocer las conclusiones de su estudio, como tampoco se ha sentido apenas la necesidad de estudiar el proceso constructivo del sistema de riego del curso bajo de este río, conocimiento o, más bien, desconocimiento anclado durante muchos años en las teorías que relacionaban su erección con la tecnología de época andalusí.

Recensión al libro ANDORNO, Roberto, Bioética y dignidad humana, Tecnos, Madrid, 2012, 177 pp.

Recensión al libro de Roberto Andorno, Bioética y dignidad humana, en el cual el autor, actualmente investigador de la Facultad de Derecho de Zurich, y exmiembro del Comité Internacional de Bioética de la UNESCO, nos ofrece la segunda edición de este interesante ensayo que ya fue publicado en 1998, acerca de los fundamentos de la bioética, el concepto de persona, las consecuencias de determinadas visiones utilitaristas de la ciencia, realizando un recorrido acerca de los dilemas bioéticos que se presentan en los diversos momentos de la vida de la persona.

Evaluación ergonómica: Jefe de taller mecánico

El presente documento tiene como objetivo analizar los riesgos a los que se ven sometidos los trabajadores de un pequeño taller mecánico. Para ello se planificó una evaluación de riesgos ergonómica la cual se ejecutó dentro de unos plazos marcados.El análisis está basado en la detección de las situaciones de riesgo mediante la observación in-situ del desarrollo del trabajo. Con esa finalidad se realizaron dos visitas al taller. La primera de ellas, tenía como objetivo detectar aquellas tareas que su ejecución representaba un riesgo para la salud del trabajador. Una vez detectadas las tareas, y previamente a la segunda visita, se realizó un pequeño estudio para determinar qué métodos ergonómicos se emplearían para realizar el estudio, conociendo de esa manera, que datos serían necesarios recoger al realizar una segunda visita. Seguidamente, se realizó una segunda visita al taller para realizar la observación de las tareas concretada previamente, y la medición de los datos.Finalmente, se procedió a procesar toda la información siguiendo las instrucciones pautadas por los métodos ergonómicos, comparando los resultados obtenidos con los niveles de riesgo admisibles, para extraer unas conclusiones del estudio, las cuales definían las condiciones laborales en las que se encontraba el trabajador. Como muchas de ellas, eran prácticamente inevitables para la ejecución de la tarea, se estudiaron una serie de medidas preventivas para reducir el nivel de riesgo. Una vez analizadas, fueron explicadas a los trabajadores mediante una pequeña formación con la finalidad de que las condiciones de trabajo mejoraran.