Resumen de Integrated learning of production engineering software applications in a shipbuilding context

Antonio Souto Iglesias, Israel Martinez Barrios, Mirko Toman, Aaron Fernandez Coracho, Rafael Guadalupe Garcia

• A course focused on the acquisition of integration competencies in ship production engineering, organized in collaboration withselected industry partners, is presented in this paper. The first part of the course is dedicated to Project Management: the studentsacquire skills in defining, using MS-PROJECT, the work breakdown structure (WBS), and the organization breakdown structure(OBS) in Engineering projects, through a series of examples of increasing complexity with the final one being the constructionplanning of a vessel. The second part of the course is dedicated to the use of a database manager, MS-ACCESS, in managingproduction related information. A series of increasing complexity examples is treated, the final one being the management of thepiping database of a real vessel. This database consists of several thousand pipes, for which a production timing frame is definedconnecting this part of the course with the first one. Finally, the third part of the course is devoted to working with FORAN, anEngineering Production application developed by SENER and widely used in the shipbuilding industry. With this application, thestructural elements where all the outfittings will be located are defined through cooperative work by the students, workingsimultaneously in the same 3D model. In this paper, specific details about the learning process are given. Surveys have been posedto the students in order to get feedback from their experience as well as to assess their satisfaction with the learning process,compared to more traditional ones. Results from these surveys are discussed in the paper.