Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011 - rees2009

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Página 127 de 957
Topic: Learning strategies 1 – Chair: Bill Williams
Engineering learning to Engineering Innovation
Janneth Arias
ing.sinfronteras.uniminuto@gmail.com
Center of Education for the Development of the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios-
Uniminuto, Bogota
Colombia
Catalina Ramirez
mariaram@uniandes.edu.co
Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá
Colombia
Abstract: To improve the quality of people life and to reduce the risk of
vulnerability of these, the engineering has some challenges. The engineering
learning and engineering teaching should to create and to recreate them, that
which is possible with the understanding and the approach to the reality or
situation that the engineering students want to transform with students of other
disciplines.
An example of these initiatives is the The Center of Education for the
Development (CED). In this center professors and students of all the academic
programs converge which I lower the pedagogic focus of education for the
development. They have to design and implement practical in social
responsibility as Engineer's project to the Neighborhood with Ingenieros sin
Fronteras. These projects are learning spaces where the students have the
possibility in classroom and marginal communities to apply knowledge among
other disciplines and to acquire new knowledge, abilities and vital social and
talkative competitions for their professional exercise and interaction with the
other ones.
Keywords: Development education; interdisciplinary learning; developing
communities
Introduction
The Corporation University Minuto de Dios leader in processes of applied investigation,
social projection and teaching, from the Faculty of Engineering and the Center of
Education for the Development (CED), which is the unit of Formation and Social Projection
of Uniminuto, has proposed a strategic alliance to promote the human and social
development in communities in high vulnerability situation, starting from the
implementation of projects of social practice in engineering that you/they look for to
strengthen and to articulate the professional knowledge with the popular knowledge and
the social abilities of professors, students and marginal communities.
Proceedings of Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011
Madrid, 4 th - 7 th October 2011