Assessing the Acquisition of Generic Skills in Open Postgraduate Studies in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering

Abstract:

This study intended to define and implement activities to ensure the acquisition of generic skills and to evaluate the acquisition by students from the perspective of the latter and from the teacher. This research focuses on official postgraduate studies, which develop in the field of Advanced Manufacturing Engineering in open teaching. To obtain the data, combined analysis of teachers (internal vision) and student surveys (external view). The results from the insight they give an idea of activities designed, although focused on knowledge, abilities and technology skills, combining a methodology that implicitly has contemplated generic skills; moreover, the external view corroborate it, especially considering the student profile and the specialty studied, but also detect some aspect of improving.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 759)
• Pages: 137-143
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.759.137
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Rosario Domingo, J. Claver, R. Álvarez
• Keywords: Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Generic Skills, Open Learning

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