Hybrid experience Chemistry - English: Students' perceptions about engineering skills.

Cano M.F.C.; Garcia M.E.C. · Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Accreditation of Engineering and Computing Education, ICACIT 2020 (2020) · DOI: 10.1109/icacit50253.2020.9277686

Resumen

The General Chemistry II course belongs to the third semester of the major in Industrial and Systems engineering. Since some years ago, a hybrid model is being used in the teaching and learning process which is framed in the social constructivist perspective of learning whose origins are in Vigostky but it is mainly based in Problem Based Learning (PBL). Part of the evaluation in the process consists of what is called 'Global Projects' involving industrial problems to be solved, cases or projects which correspond to the 20 percent of the subject final evaluation. Since the semester 2018-I work is being coordinated with the Language Centre of the university so that students do part of the project in English. Through interviews with students of the last three semesters who experienced work in the global projects and the discourse analysis, this paper frames in this context to inquire about the students' perceptions in relation to the acquired abilities during the process. The results show the juxtaposition of factors that benefit the development of engineering skills which are desirable in our current competitive society.