Resumen de A proposal to develop and assess professional skills in engineering final year projects
Fermín Sánchez Carracedo, Juan Bautista Climent Bonilla, Julita Corbalán González, Pau Fonseca i Casas, Jordi Garcia, José R. Herrero, Guillermo Horacio Rodriguez, María-Ribera Sancho Samso
In this paper we discuss the result of piloting a methodology for Engineering Final Year Projects (FYP) assessment thattakes into consideration professional skills acquisition. The FYP is structured around three milestones; skills are assignedto each milestone according to the tasks required in each phase, and a list of indicators have been designed for every phase.The criteria are specified in a rubric and are made available to students. The FYP implementation includes evaluationmethods and a homogeneous assessment throughout the project development in order to provide students with valuableproject implementation support, to facilitate the project organization, to improve the quality of projects and thereby toreduce the academic drop-out rate. The proposed methodology has been implemented and piloted at the Barcelona Schoolof Informatics, and the conclusions can easily be generalized to any other Engineering degree. This paper presents theresults of the FYP for 1,569 students. The average percentage of students finishing FYP in previous degrees was 65% onaverage, whereas in the case of the Bachelor Degree in Informatics the percentage rose to 90% with the methodologyproposed in this paper. In addition, 95% of these students finished their FYP in less than one year, compared to only 65%who finished it in less than one year in previous Degrees.
