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Initiatives aimed to promote best practices in company internships in the emerging EHEA are presented. They have been implemented in the new curricula of the School of Industrial and Telecommunications Engineering of the Public University of Navarre. They imply a redefinition of the way these actions were formerly designed. The most salient features of the new approach are the key role played by the...
The goal of the 24 hours of innovation challenge is to encourage student teams from French and Spanish universities around the Pyrenees to find creative solutions to challenges put forward by participating companies. The initiative is presented and analyzed in this paper as an efficient way to promote creativity and innovation in the new engineering students.
The need for stablishing International Programs at the universities is particularly relevant in the case of the Engineering Degrees. In a context of progressive industrial globalization, the new engineering students have to be not only competent in technical aspects but also exhibit good skills in terms of foreign languages and intercultural knowledge. In order to attract new students, and particularly...
In a context of global industrialization, the engineers have to be not only competent and technically well-prepared but also show effective communication in other languages, preferably English, and intercultural skills. For an engineering degree to be competitive, their academic curriculum has to be designed taking into account this fact. This paper describes the Engineering International Programs...
Women represent more than 50% of the University students both in Europe and the United States. According to this, one might assume that the number of female students in Engineering might have been progressively increasing. But, the under-representation of women in engineering degrees has become a persistent problem. This work presents an analysis of women enrolment in engineering degrees at the Public...
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