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Figure 3: “Endurance project” structure
Below, we present the different activities oriented to support the OCDIO structure in the
Endurance-P.
Observe & Conceive: The process of observation, and the conception of the idea, in the
context of the proposed “general subject”, is made in two steps:
• Individual exercise: Based in expert conferences, bibliography and direct
observation activities, each student must propose a problematic situation to
address and the potential added value of ICTs.
• Ideas Fair: In a session with the individual proposal shown in a poster, the
students express their favorability for the different ideas and at the end of the
session the teams of four students are defined on the basis of the most accepted
proposals.
• Team observation work: Student teams observe situations that allow them to
conclude that they can give society an added value using what they learn in
computing engineering. Based on this observation the team should formulate the
team proposal draft in a formal document.
Design & Implement
With transversal activities of engineering, students design the computing prototype of
their proposal. Even though design and implementation advances are shown in the
engineering introduction courses, at the end of the semester, students present to the
public the results of their design and conception during ExpoAndes. ExpoAndes is a fair of
innovation, teamwork, and entrepreneurship, where the different groups of students show
an innovative proposal that allows them to solve a problem derived from an identified
necessity. Students that present their prototypes in ExpoAndes have to demonstrate that
Proceedings of Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011
Madrid, 4 th - 7 th October 2011