Abstract:

Teaching in the area of Civil Engineering is undergoing a vertiginous transformation where the constant recycling of professionals must be the basis of their training. Career development and training are two aspects of the vital development of professionals that must be conditioned by the guiding principles of social development. Both must be closely linked so that the professional can fulfill the task for which he/she has been prepared during his/her training and which is aimed at achieving the progress of society.

Within this general framework, and in order to further realize this objective of fulfilling the tasks that society demands of the graduates we train, in the Department of Civil Engineering: Hydraulics and Land Management we are implementing work techniques that jointly incorporate open methodologies for project management incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The problem we find in the development of these activities is their eminently theoretical and impractical nature when it comes to including them in Civil Engineering degree courses.

It has been found that the formative techniques of Service-Learning (SL) allow us to apply the models we are describing theoretically to real cases. These techniques have a very wide operational range and have been used to promote the social development of certain areas that are more depressed or where there is a lack of resources. Civil Engineering is the most useful means to improve the quality of life of citizens and the incorporation of the most advanced criteria and work mechanisms is on the one hand a social objective and on the other hand an economic necessity in a very competitive global environment.

We are promoting different types of work that aim to use these service-learning training techniques for students to develop professional activities with an important component of experimentation and search for new solutions to the new challenges of Civil Engineering, but with a social component. This takes into account resource management as well as mobility and infrastructure management systems. The objective is to work with organizations in the most innovative areas to acquire experience in these methodologies and develop best practices applicable to a wide range of administrations and companies.

The Universiddad Politécnica de Madrid is developing a collaboration program with the Madrid City Council and we hope that this framework will allow us to model this type of project aimed at developing advanced techniques with experimental methodologies in the application to organizations.

Project Management Methodology (PM2) is the open model of project management promoted by the European Union for the development of activities that are co-financed in its various programs, with the great advantage that they are collaborative techniques instead of other existing solutions on the market.

Service-learning training processes are a good way to improve training and employability and to achieve the dissemination of the best work processes in organizations.

Keywords:

Service-Learning, ApS, SDG, PM2, Civil Engineering.