THE FINAL DEGREE PROJECT IN INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS AND AUTOMATION ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA. A PENDING SUBJECT

The Verification Report of the Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de València describes the Final Degree Project (FDP) and its main characteristics. This report defines the FDP as an original and individual work in the field of the specific technologies in Electronics and Automation, synthetizing and integrating the competences acquired by the student all over this Degree. Likewise, it is a 12 ECTS subject and its assessment consists of the individual defense of an original project to an Examination Panel.

Based on these provisions, Universities have stablished the appropriate procedures for requesting FDPs, appointing tutors, defense periods, composition of the Examination Panel, and so on. Each University may have its own rules, regulations and deadlines depending on its particularities.

On the other hand, even though the acquisition of transversal competences by the students can be evaluated in the defense process, the huge diversity of FDPs makes it necessary to establish clear evaluation criteria. The idea is to allow the assessment of the specific competences in an easy and efficient way. In fact, FDPs are so diverse that can be conducted in a research group, an enterprise or by the students themselves and it may deal with basic research, applied research and even the development of a prototype.

In this paper, a rubric is presented in order to facilitate the assessment of all this FDPs casuistry and allow an objective evaluation without undermining the evaluation proposals and indications made by the project tutors.