abstract
- © 2019 ACM.This educational intervention consists in improving the skills of citizenship of students in their first semesters of engineering through participatory management of remote laboratories of air quality in eight different zones of Monterrey, Mexico. With the use of gadgets that can the level of pollution in the air, the students were divided into teams of 4 to 5 members and visited its allocated area on 3 different days, by measuring the level of pollution in 24 key points in your area: 8 places with a high amount of vehicular traffic, 8 in small streets with little traffic and 8 places in green areas, such as parks. Students scored the measurements and prepared a final report on their area, delivering reports to authorities of local communities in your area assigned. Two focus groups took place, one during the activity and one after the students handed in their final reports. The goal behind the focus group was to listen to the student's thoughts regarding the activity and the knowledge they acquired thanks to it. Interesting suggestions for future implementations were also an important topic during these focus groups.