Defining a new project-based learning model: Challenges in a new economic and social context

Abstract

This paper presents an experience in developing technical skills and personal competencesbyan approach that integrates a group of teaching methodological tools and assessment coherently. It has been implemented for students of Engineering Project Management subject in the Industrial Technologies degree program of the Technical University of Madrid. The study shows how the authors face the new challenges that are causedby the adverse economic contextbyadopting effective countermeasures in the classroom. The results show that the specific teaching-learning strategy that we introduce enables the reinforcement of four competences simultaneously and the acquisition of subject knowledge at a high level, eventually guaranteeing the inclusive engineering educational system of the institution.