Física y Ciencia de los Materiales: oportunidades del vínculo interdisciplinario en el currículum de Ingeniería Mecánica.

Published in: Engineering for a Smarter Planet: Innovation, ITC, and Computational Tools for Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference: August 3-5, 2011
Location of Conference: Medellin, Colombia
Authors: Arcelio A. Hernández Fereira
Luís M. Castellanos
Refereed Paper: #222

Abstract

Some topics foreseen in Materials Science courses in Mechanical Engineering career could be presented in a deeper way and successfully understood by students if they are treated in a special teaching style during Physics courses.
This interdisciplinary work required the identification of the related topics and the definition of its treatment within Physics subjects. That included planning and designing of academic activities, innovations in the evaluation system, organization of student scientific work in the first semesters. Such didactic treatment increases the motivation of the students since initial semesters and contributes to raise the professional skills of the future engineer.