The main objective of the new ACREDITA PLUS program (2010) , namely, to avoid the multiplicity of processes so that degree programs can obtain both national accreditation and a European/international quality label through best use being made of synergies between the two QA processes.
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Integrative Learning Toward Social Responsibility in Teaching Engineering: “Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education”
Domingo Alfonso Martín Sánchez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain & Unidad de Emprendimiento Social, Ética y Valores en Ingeniería, Spain), Ana García Laso (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain & Unidad de Emprendimiento Social, Ética y Valores en Ingeniería, Spain), Jorge Luis Costafreda Mustelier (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas y Energía (UPM), Spain), and José-Luis Parra y Alfaro (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas y Energía (UPM), Spain)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1238-8.ch002
Abstract
The Technical University of Madrid, within the Spanish context, has profited from the introduction of a System of Internal Quality Assurance to build a road on the grounds of previous work on the culture of ethics in engineering. This way may drive the students training to incorporate in their curricula, leadership instruments that can be used for the recognition and acquisition of social responsibility. The road is paved with various educational elements, either mandatory, such as the “Mentoring Project” (peer support program), or optional, such as “Monitoring” (peer academic support program), “Ethics and Values in Engineering” (with social entrepreneurship projects) and “Service-Learning” (methodology that combines learning objectives with community service). This strategy, combined with the convergence of the European Higher Education Area, allows selecting those students who are able to integrate in their professional assets the idea and commitment of making the human development more sustainable, since the named experiences work towards the Sustainable Development Goals.