Abstract:

Final Degree Project (FDP) is a work done by university students in last university year, according tutor´s guide and directly linked with the student’s careers. The topic of FDP can be balanced between broad spectra and generally related to the research areas at Departments or can be imply practices carried out by the student in some company or industry. Regardless of the selected topic, the tutor must be present throughout all steps of the development of FDP: beginning, planning, development and final document, considering that this active role has a relevant percentage of the final student´s performance. This role is calling up attention from statement of European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The tutor must evaluate each of the steps of FDP, and achieve that the student is able to implement a set of basic skills in order to progress in its learning. Meanwhile, must evaluate that student can be of help in its life outside the university: entrepreneurial spirit and innovation, sustainability, effective communication, use of information resources, self-directed learning, right attitude with the work and reasoning. The aim of this work is to issue guidelines and methodologies in the tutorial of FDP, in particular in engineering studies, considering the experience of authors and extensive casuistic observed along the years