Actividades para crear referentes femeninos en ingeniería

  1. Calvo Iglesias, Encina
Book:
First International Conference on Engineering Education for the XXI Century - ICEE21C 2017

Publisher: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco

ISBN: 978-84-9082-642-3

Year of publication: 2017

Pages: 67-70

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

In this communication are some of the activities developed in the degree in ChemicalEngineering, to provide female referrals to engineering students. These activities,which consist of writing the biography of an engineer in different formats, have been designedin a way that also serves to improve students’ information skills, written communicationor critical thinking.The results of this task have been satisfactory. On the one hand, students have increasedtheir knowledge about the contributions of women to engineering and, on theother hand, there has been an improvement in skills, such as written communication.