Modesto Pérez Sánchez

Implementando metodologías de evaluación en proyectos de redes de saneamiento en el Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente. Caso de estudio.

Development of projects as teaching strategy is a powerful tool to activate and strengthen the students’ learning. The classical evaluation of projects by numeric items has been the usual way but the introduction of UPV generic student outcomes within student’s curricula obliges to update the evaluation criteria as well as the way to achieve it. This communication presents the time planning of a subject, which represents a level III (Master Degree) control point for the generic outcome ‘Design and Project’. As a consequence of the wide range of the students background in this subject, there are many of them which did not previously work this outcome for levels I and II (Bachelor). A rubric was developed to do the evaluation in which descriptors were defined according to traditional used items. These defined descriptors were used to evaluate the reached degree by the students for each indicator. Finally, the experience demonstrated the possibility to evaluate the ability to develop a project using competences. A comparison between marks obtained by traditional system and marks obtained by competences was developed, getting similar results that did not change the final mark in the student curricula.

Sustainability Challenges in Hydraulic Engineering for Agriculture

Nowadays, hydraulic engineering represents a compromise between science and technique that should go in parallel with the developmentof the farmer’s performance, in agricultural terms. On the one hand, it is the science of water in movement, and its interactions with the surrounding environment, considered as a fluid. On the other hand, water management implications are a junction of challenges to be solved in order to provide the better solutions for population and environment in a sustainable framework.