INTERDEPARTMENTAL COLLABORATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS IN RELATION TO THE REGULATION AND CONTROL OF PROCESSES IN ENGINEERING DEGREES

An interdepartmental collaboration project has been set up with the aim of developing a work dynamic where the students of the Industrial Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering degrees work together in the field of process regulation.

In most Engineering degrees; once the basic subjects have been studied, students receive training exclusively focused on the field of knowledge of their degree, which in many cases, prevents a global vision of their knowledge and the different applications where this knowledge can be useful.

So that until the student has no contact with the world of work, they have no possibility of establishing a relationship between the knowledge acquired in a specific profile, and other professional disciplines that are directly related to their profile.

This project has been designed to fuse part of the teaching practices of two subjects, one belonging to the Electrical Engineering degree and another to the Industrial Chemical Engineering degree. Electrical engineering students will contribute with their knowledge of control, automation and programming of industrial robot as well as their periphery. The Industrial Chemical Engineering colleagues will contribute with their knowledge of chemical processes. The work has been carried out jointly, so that academic synergies have been created among them, obtaining an experience of collaboration similar to the one developed in the exercise of the professional activity of Engineering. A joint laboratory internship plan where students of both degrees can collaborate among themselves within their scope of action was designed.

The aim is to improve the teaching-learning process in relation to the matter of regulation and control of processes through the interrelation of two subjects from both degrees (Degree in Industrial Chemical Engineering and the Degree in Electrical Engineering). The student will obtain a global vision of knowledge and a greater vision of its applicability from the interconnection of the subjects.

The development of the experience is also intended to show the student how to work in the workplace, in collaboration with different disciplines, not isolated in a certain profile, but rather interconnected with other subjects to get the best results and performance, just like an engineer works in the industr; expecting to improve the evaluation results of the students of both degrees in this subject, based on this interconnection of experiences.