2015, Vol. 5. núm. 4

Summary

  • A focus on teaching and learning sustainability and social commitment skills 

    Alier Forment, Marc; Caetano, Nidia; García Peñalvo, Francisco José; Amante García, Beatriz; Martínez Martínez, María del Rosario (OmniaScience, 2015-12)
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    This JOTSE Special Issue is dedicated to the topic of teaching and learning the Sustainability and Social Compromise Skills, with a special focus in the context of engineering education. This topic was discussed in the ...

  • Developing an aquaponics system to learn sustainability and social compromise skills 

    Duarte, Abel José; Malheiro, Benedita; Castro Ribeiro, Cristina; Silva, Manuel Fernando; Ferreira, Paulo; Guedes, Pedro (OmniaScience, 2015-12)
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    The goal of this project, one of the proposals of the EPS@ISEP Spring 2014, was to develop an Aquaponics System. Over recent years Aquaponics systems have received increased attention since they contribute to reduce the ...

  • Learning sustainability by developing a solar dryer for microalgae retrieval 

    Malheiro, Benedita; Ribeiro, Cristina Castro; Silva, Manuel Fernando; Caetano, Nidia Sá; Ferreira, Paulo; Guedes, Pedro (OmniaScience, 2015-12)
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    The development of nations depends on energy consumption, which is generally based on fossil fuels. This dependency produces irreversible and dramatic effects on the environment, e.g. large greenhouse gas emissions, which ...

  • Introducing ethical, social and environmental issues in ICT engineering degrees 

    Miñano Rubio, Rafael; Fernández Aller, María Celia; Anguera de Sojo Hernández, Aurea María; Portillo Aldana, Eloy (OmniaScience, 2015-12)
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    This paper describes the experience of introducing ethical, social and environmental issues in undergraduate ICT engineering degrees at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid. It is an example of both bottom-up and top-down ...

  • A multicultural approach to teach sustainability 

    Caetano, Nídia de Sá; Rocha, João Simões; Quadrado, José Carlos; Cardoso, José Marílio; Felgueiras, Manuel Carlos (OmniaScience, 2015-12)
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    Globalization is a tendency that covers all society perspectives in general, and the high education in particular. The main traditional objective of these institutions was to prepare domestic students with a set of skills. ...