Mind-Mapping, Total Quality and Open Resources for A Bioengineering Trans-Disciplinary Experience

(Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina)

Abstract: This report addresses the possibility of curricular transformation by rethinking the work plans for Bio-engineering through different experiences after students’ institutional and regional labor contexts needs analysis and systemic aims matching. The theoretical framework is constituted by an amalgam of scientific-methodological approaches in an educational managing research proposal. The integrative design followed the specific educational vision of the Complexity Sciences which proposes critical analysis for the professional situations that future graduates would face. Within the project CICITCA 20/22 — ACE Models in Engineering Competences for Research Development and Deep Learning — dependent on the Electronics and Automatic Department, questions of an epistemological nature were raised in order to generate a brainstorming of innovative ideas and a thorough awareness of the objectives of the curricula, of content adequacy to current students’ profiles and needs. Researchers and teachers, involved in the project, were divided according to the thematic nuclei and disciplinary axes of the study. Once the innovation mainframe was sketched, the team worked on suitable practice curricular relevance, interference of technological factors, unified modeling language sustenance and social models for quality devices in order to guide acquisition and learning processes in engineering student populations. The evolutionary correlate of the students’ abilities and the appreciations on efficiently learnt content under this experiential context were analyzed by means of educational analytics. 

Key words: language, quality, complexity, skills