Professor Sergio Esteban Roncero has been awarded the V Prize for Innovation in Engineering Teaching from the Higher Technical School of Engineering for his work “Design Thinking Methodologies applied to project-based learning for the Aircraft Design subject at the Higher Technical School of Engineering: pre-COVID and post-COVID experiences”. 

 

The second prize has been awarded to the work “Consolidation and expansion of the Ibero-American network for Materials and Processes Selection”, carried out by professors Isabel Montealegre Meléndez, Eva Mª Pérez Soriano, Cristina Mª Arévalo Mora, Laureano Soria Conde, Otilio Fernández Romero, Guillermo Peláez Romero, Ranier E. Sepúlveda Ferrer, Sheila K. Lascano Farak and Jaime Alberto Mesa Cogollo.

 

Likewise, the Third Prize ex aequo has been awarded to the work “Innovation of the teaching methodology of equilibrium diagrams in the subject of Materials Chemistry in the Degree of Civil Engineering of the Higher Technical School of Engineering”, carried out by the professors Petr Urban, Fátima Ternero Fernández, Raquel Astacio López and Fernando García Jiménez, and to the work “What if we really took into account the students in our teaching? Evaluation of the impact of the innovations introduced in the subject Thermodynamics”, carried out by the professor Pablo Giménez Gavarrell.

 

The Management of the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI), with the aim of promoting the pedagogical updating of its teaching staff and the use of new teaching resources, invites the Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) of the ETSI to participate in this biennial award. 

 

As a result of the restructuring of university studies in Spain (Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees), adapted to the European Higher Education Area, the School of Engineering (ETSI) at the University of Seville has updated the curriculum for its more than 600 courses. This situation has prompted reflection on teaching methodologies and any innovations that could impact the training of ETSI graduates. Therefore, the ETSI of Seville's Teaching Innovation Award was created to encourage reflection on the design and practice of engineering teaching within the current socio-academic context, as well as to promote student learning through classroom and laboratory activities that can improve, among other things, students' capacity for independent and/or collaborative learning, their participation and creativity, their communication skills, the processes of learning assessment, and the effective integration of tools that facilitate these tasks.

 

Likewise, the award aims to find innovative actions that can contribute to the improvement of teaching and, where appropriate, be extended to other subjects.

The Evaluation Committee, made up of members of the teaching and research staff of the ETSI, has highlighted the high level of the work presented in this call.