General Objective: Design a multidisciplinary class/course proposal/model within the curricular planning of the Civil Engineering careers of the Ecuadorian National Higher Education System, based on an approach from Science, Technology and Society (STS) studies. , which allows improving the current training of civil engineers, through complementarity with approaches from the social sciences.
Specific objectives:
- Identify the curricular elements of the subjects of the Civil Engineering careers at the national level, extracting themes that allow the development of the course with a STS approach.
- Indicator: number of resumes analyzed of the total Civil Engineering careers offered in the country.
- Means of validation: diagnostic report of academic curricula focused on the key themes raised.
- Systematize the most relevant experiences, and the existing pedagogical and research approaches at an international level, both in Latin America and globally, related to the strengthening of engineering education through a STS approach.
- Indicator: Number of experiences identified at the international level.
- Means of validation: Systematization report of the experiences identified at the international level.
- Form a team of national and international experts who have experience in strengthening engineering teaching through a CTS approach who would collaborate in the construction of the course. Outline specific contributions and recommendations for the construction of the course through a team of expert collaborators at the national and international level who have experience in strengthening engineering teaching through a STS approach.
- Indicator: Number of experts interviewed to collaborate in the construction of the course.
- Means of validation: Report of interviews and/or consultancies carried out through collaboration with experts for the construction of the course.
- Select specific case studies of events associated with Civil Engineering that could be analyzed from a CTS approach, at a national and regional level, both historically and currently, which would serve as a basis for the development of the course based on a Pedagogy based on the analysis of real case studies.
- Indicator: Number of case studies selected to be the basis of the curricular design.
- Means of validation: Report of the selected case studies, differentiating those that have already been worked on and those that need to be investigated in order to be incorporated into the curricular design.
- Design the modules of the proposed course based on the identified curricular elements, the selected case studies, the systematization of international experiences, the suggestions received from experts, combining in each module perspectives that connect the technical components and the social components of each study. of case.
- Indicator: Number of modules designed based on the information collected.
- Means of validation: Report on the design of the modules for the course.
- Prepare a list of potential experts who could teach the course and collaborate in the training of teachers from civil engineering faculties around STS topics.
- Indicator: Number of experts identified.
- Means of validation: List of experts identified at the national level to teach the course and collaborate in teacher training.
- Identify institutions interested in implementing pilot projects based on the course designed in this research.
- Indicator: Number of institutions interested in implementing the course.
- Means of validation: List of institutions interested in implementing the course, and their respective contact information.
Participating Institutions:
PUCE, UTA, UCUENCA.
Participants:
Project Director Jorge David Albuja Sánchez
- Luis Felipe Contreras Vásquez
- Oscar Patricio Alvear Alvear
- Edwin Fernando Herrera García
- José David Gómez Urrego
Awarded budget: $44050,00
Project Status: Completed
