Art and technology: Course designed on Competency-Based Learning to form the professional profile of the actual engineer Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • Report of educational innovation of the course for engineering Art and Technology, with Learning Based on Competences. Designed and imparted from the Department of Interdisciplinary Innovation from January to July 2016 by five specialists: in Humanities and Fine Arts, Industrial Design, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, and Innovation and Sustainability. For the first time in August 2016, 38 students from five engineering schools were divided into two groups. The challenge was: To create an artistic work that fuses art and technology by tackling 21st century global problems based on solid aesthetic discourse. With a Competency-Based Learning (CBL), this course stimulated in the students the interdisciplinary, the human sense and the development of three competences of egress1. Knowledge of processes to transfer technology, and 2. Knowledge of the processes to apply technology. Results: 55 individual and / or collective artistic works with art and technology, explained with academic essays for its aesthetic foundation. This course impacts on the desired professional profile for the current engineer.

publication date

  • January 1, 2017