Developing students’ aptitudes through University-Industry collaboration

In addition to the engineering knowledge base that has been traditionally taught, today’s undergraduate engineering students need to be given the opportunity to practice a set of skills that will be demanded to them by future employers, namely: creativity, teamwork, problem solving, leadership and the ability to generate innovative ideas. In order to achieve this and educate engineers with both in-depth technical knowledge and professional skills, universities must carry out their own innovating and find suitable approaches that serve their students. This article presents a novel approach that involves university-industry collaboration. It is based on creating a student community for a particular company, allowing students to deal with real industry projects and apply what they are learning in the classroom. A sample project for the German sports brand adidas is presented, along with the project results and evaluation by students and teachers. The university-industry collaborative approach is shown to be beneficial for both students and industry.

• Autores: Aizpun, Miguel; Sandino, Diego; Merideno, Inaki
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/67640
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/67640; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/68669/
• Palabra clave: 62 Ingeniería y operaciones afines / Engineering; Student community; multidisciplinary teamwork; creativity; motivation; university-industry collaboration.; Comunidad de estudiantes; trabajo en equipo multidisciplinario; creatividad; motivación; colaboración universidad-industria.
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional