Basic Projects of Knowledge Integration in the Bachelors’ Degree in Industrial Technology

Abstract

The syllabus of bachelors’ degree in Industrial Technology at Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering has Project I and Project II on semesters 4 and 6. In these subjects, students must face correctly to a concrete engineering problem which has to structure and solve with the knowledge and competences acquired in previous subjects. In the frame of Mechanical Engineering, it is recommended that the problem to solve by the students should involve the realization of a task within a technological process that requires the manipulation of a real mechanism. The project includes the identification and concretisation of the task and the technological process, the geometric and kinematic analysis of the mechanism, the design of a manoeuvre, the implementation of the control of the actuators for the execution of the manoeuvre and the design and construction, with rapid prototyping, of an adequate accessory for the task. Till nowadays, the results after three semesters of teaching have been satisfactory from the teachers’ and students’ side.