Abstract:

Every year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, (Davos Forum) bring together politicians, business people and representatives from social and cultural organizations in order to find solutions for the world’s problems. From 2016, the Davos Forum recognizes the new Industrial Revolution, the fourth, the revolution focused in the new technologies. It is one different revolution. It is characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, affecting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human.

In the 2019 the event focused on the theme “Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, recognized in its sixth point, how new technologies are creating wholesale change across all industries, at a rapid pace and how it poses in the scopes of cybersecurity, job security and data privacy. This year, two of the six points were again about the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR), the third “Reaching Global Consensus on Deployment of FIR Technology” and the sixth “Helping Businesses Develop the Models Needed to Drive Business Activity in the FIR”.

The activity proposed, at the first course students of Degree in Electrical Engineering and Degree in Automatic and Industrial Electronics Engineering of the Polytechnic University College of the University of A Coruña (Spain), is to introduce the terminology and the new concepts around Industry 4.0. This industry is expected they will find in their future professional career.

The activity designed consists on presentations about a topical issue, which are performed in groups of three students. This activity has been developed during the first semester of the course, within the subject of Physics I.

The proposed topics, such as Cybersecurity or Additive Manufacturing or Blockchain and Bitcoin, were very innovative as they had never heard about many of them before, but from now on, they will have to incorporate them into their academic and professional vocabulary.

The used system for the presentations was the storytelling format known as Pecha Kucha. This is a dynamic and challenging presentation way for the engineering students. This activity was evaluated through a rubric by the teacher, although by learners, whose participation was anonymous and not binding. Finally, a satisfaction test was distributed to the students in order to check if this new activity was satisfactory.

Keywords:

Industry 4.0, Engineers, Pecha Kucha.