Applied Engineering Project

• Teachers
• Competences
• Objectives
• Contents
• Activities
• Teaching methodology
• Evaluation methodology
• Bibliography
• Web links

Teachers

Person in charge

• David Rovirosa Calvet ( )
• Mireia Fageda Bertran ( )

Others

• Alberto Cabellos Aparicio ( )
• Josep Sole Pareta ( )
• Pere Barlet Ros ( )

Competences

Transversal Competences

Teamwork

• G5 [Avaluable] - To be capable to work as a team member, being just one more member or performing management tasks, with the finality of contributing to develop projects in a pragmatic way and with responsibility sense; to assume compromises taking into account the available resources.
  • G5.3 - To identify the roles, skills and weaknesses of the different members of the group. To propose improvements in the group structure. To interact with efficacy and professionalism. To negotiate and manage conflicts in the group. To recognize and give support or assume the leader role in the working group. To evaluate and present the results of the tasks of the group. To represent the group in negotiation involving other people. Capacity to collaborate in a multidisciplinary environment. To know and apply the techniques for promoting the creativity.

Entrepreneurship and innovation

• G1 [Avaluable] - To know and understand the organization of a company and the sciences which govern its activity; capacity to understand the labour rules and the relation between planning, industrial and business strategies, quality and benefit. To develop creativity, entrepreneur spirit and innovation tendency.
  • G1.2 - To have initiatives which generate opportunities, new objects or solutions, with a process and market implementation vision, and to imply other team members in projects which have to be developed (capacity to perform autonomously).

Effective oral and written communication

• G4 [Avaluable] - To communicate with other people knowledge, procedures, results and ideas orally and in a written way. To participate in discussions about topics related to the activity of a technical informatics engineer.
  • G4.3 - To communicate clearly and efficiently in oral and written presentations about complex topics, becoming adapted to the situation, the type of audience and the communication goals, using the strategies and the adequate means. To analyse, value and respond adequately to the questions of the audience.

Technical Competences

Common technical competencies

• CT2 - To use properly theories, procedures and tools in the professional development of the informatics engineering in all its fields (specification, design, implementation, deployment and products evaluation) demonstrating the comprehension of the adopted compromises in the design decisions.
  • CT2.3 - To design, develop, select and evaluate computer applications, systems and services and, at the same time, ensure its reliability, security and quality in function of ethical principles and the current legislation and normative.
• CT3 - To demonstrate knowledge and comprehension of the organizational, economic and legal context where her work is developed (proper knowledge about the company concept, the institutional and legal framework of the company and its organization and management)
  • CT3.6 - To demonstrate knowledge about the ethical dimension of the company: in general, the social and corporative responsibility and, concretely, the civil and professional responsibilities of the informatics engineer.
• CT8 - To plan, conceive, deploy and manage computer projects, services and systems in every field, to lead the start-up, the continuous improvement and to value the economical and social impact.
  • CT8.1 - To identify current and emerging technologies and evaluate if they are applicable, to satisfy the users needs.

Objectives

1. Discuss, agree and prepare a project proposal with a group of students. Define the proposal with the appropriate scope.
   Related competences: CT8.1, CT3.6, G1.2, CT2.3,
2. Plan a project and manage the work among the team members.
   Related competences: CT3.6,
3. Apply the knowledge learned during the studies to successfully design and implement an engineering project.
   Related competences: CT8.1, CT3.6, CT2.3,
4. Choose the appropriate technologies to fulfill the requirements of the project proposal.
   Related competences: CT2.3,
5. Demonstrate, present and defend a project.
   Related competences: G4.3, G5.3, G1.2,
6. Prepare and write the documentation of an engineering project.
   Related competences: G4.3,

Contents

1. Creative Thinking
   La Empresa actúa como cliente planteando un problema/reto. Los estudiantes deben plantear un producto/tecnología que solucione dicho problema.
2. System Thinking
   Los estudiantes deben plantear un sistema completo, usualmente multi-disciplinar. La solución se negocia con la empresa
3. Engineering Design
   Los estudiantes definirán un proyecto de ingeniería (Objetivos, Paquetes de Trabajo, Gantt, Deliverables, etc) que implementarán. La metodología de trabajo vendrá definida por la empresa.
4. Team Work
   Los estudiantes desarrollarán las diferentes partes del sistema (adaptándose cuando sea posible a su especialidad) usando una metodología definida por la empresa. En esta fase se incluyen reuniones de seguimiento y deliverables que deben ser aprobados por la empresa.
5. Projecte defense
   Los estudiantes demuestran y defienden su proyecto ante la Empresa

Activities

Activity Evaluation act

Teaching methodology

Evaluation methodology

Bibliography

Basic:

• Design thinking: understanding how designers think and work - Cross, N, Berg, 2011. ISBN: 9781847886361
  https://discovery.upc.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004063249706711&context=L&vid=34CSUC_UPC:VU1&lang=ca

Web links

• http://dschool.stanford.edu/dgift/