Specific professional skills development for engineering studies: Spatial orientation
- Autores: Carlos Carbonell Carrera, Norena Martín Dorta, José Luis Saorín Pérez, Jorge de la Torre Cantero
- Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 31, no. Extra 1 (Parte B), 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Engineering Education: Beyond Technical Skills Part II—Case Studies Linked to the Promotion of Specific Technical Skills), págs. 316-322
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The spatial skills are an active field of research, especially in the engineering area. Several authors connect high levels ofspatial kills with the success in technical careers. One of the components of spatial skills is spatial orientation. Many studiesshow that providing the appropriate material may develop spatial skills. However, a plan aiming for the development ofspatial orientation skills in formal teaching is still missing. This paper presents an innovation in the teaching strategiesthrough a Geographic Information Technologies workshop which aim is development of the spatial orientation. Theworkshop’s study was completed during four academic courses with 248 university engineering students involved. Acontrol group was created with 35 students using conventional teaching methods for determining if the increase in thespatial orientation skill is due to the effect of this workshop. The result shows significant statistical gains over the spatialorientation skill of 19.21 degrees. The results from the control group confirm that students who have not undertakenspecific training didn’t develop their spatial orientation skill.
