Evaluation of CT04-Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship in studies related to the industrial environment

The Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) has developed programs defining specific and generic competences for its Bachelors' and Masters' degrees and for the subjects along them. In an engineering context, the competence "Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CT-04)" allows the students to face problems of technical nature. The present work is focused on the design of a teaching activity based on the realisation of an industrial project where the aforementioned competence is promoted. This activity has been applied during two academic years in the subject "Design and Application of Industrial Equipment" (Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering). The students face an open project with multiple alternatives and propose solutions to optimise industrial processes. All the projects have to implement creative and innovative techniques to generate technical solutions. The academic works are evaluated following a rubric to establish objective criteria. Analysing these results permits to establish a correlation between the influence of the competence into the project and the final subject grades, inferring that the competence prepares the student to achieve the objectives that must be acquired in the subject. Further work is needed to establish if the proposed rubrics can detect the degree of acquisition of the competence.