Abstract:

The training offer that the Spanish educational system presents today, especially university training, does not meet, in many cases, the expectations demanded by today's society.

The education system is sometimes too rigid, even outdated in some respects. These are the main causes that study plans need constant updates. The procedure for modifying these plans is sometimes slow and laborious. For this reason, the adaptation of existing training elements is considered one of the best options to incorporate new skills without the need to modify the study plans. Highlighting among them the Final Degree Projects (TFG).

Therefore, the Final Degree Project is considered one of the most flexible tools that university education currently has to introduce new skills that a modern society demands of its graduates. Among which are: creativity, innovation, criticality, collaboration and communication.

In this context, the Educational Innovation Project: "Design and Participation in Engineering", approved by the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (IE1929.5803), is presented in this communication, where the need to effectively apply the tools that the University makes available to students to implement the TRL (Technology readiness levels) methodology and Design Thinking procedures, applied to TFGs.

The objectives of this project are:
- Facilitate and enhance collaboration between students of the Civil Engineering and Industrial Design Schools of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in the preparation of Final Degree Project.
- Integrate the creativity of the authors of the projects with their diffusion and social propagation.

The TFGs that are part of this Educational Innovation Project, and that will take place throughout this academic year, are oriented towards collaboration, where the students of the School of Civil Engineers provide updated knowledge and adapt new needs for the design of Civil Engineering and Territorial Planning infrastructures and the students of the School of Engineering and Industrial Design leading industrial technologies to improve efficient monitoring and control systems as well as the sustainability of infrastructures.

Keywords:

Educational Innovation, Final Degree Project, Technology readiness levels, Design Thinking, Collaborative Works.