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

 

Second prize went to the work “Consolidation and expansion of the Ibero-American network for the Selection of Materials and Processes”, 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 for the work “Innovation of the teaching methodology of equilibrium diagrams in the subject of Chemistry of Materials 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 students into account in our teaching? Evaluation of the impact of the innovations introduced in the Thermodynamics subject”, carried out by Professor Pablo Giménez Gavarrell.

 

The Management of the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI), in order to promote 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 consequence of the restructuring of university studies in Spain (degree, master's and doctorate), adapted to the European Higher Education Area, the ETSI of the University of Seville has renewed the teaching planning of the more than 600 subjects taught there. . This situation encourages reflection on teaching methodologies or on any innovation that may impact the training of students graduating from the ETSI. Thus, the Award for Teaching Innovation in Engineering of the ETSI of Seville was created with the objective of stimulating reflection on the design and practice of teaching activity in engineering in the current socio-academic context, as well as encouraging student learning through teaching actions in the classroom and laboratories, which can improve, among others, the students' capacity for autonomous and/or cooperative learning, their participation and creativity, their communication capacity, the learning evaluation processes and the effective incorporation of tools that facilitate the above tasks.

 

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

Once the Evaluation Commission met, made up of members of the ETSI PDI, it highlighted the high level of the works presented in this call.