Competences

In the educational model of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) the emphasis is placed on the student’s learning.

This learning model involves the creation of an open educational area characterized by the development of general competences, or cross- curricular, and specific or technical competences, fostering participation, and a dynamic and collaborative environment in and outside the learning context.

All masters and degrees have assumed the development and evaluation of generic competences since they include a set of cognitive and metacognitive abilities, instrumental knowledge and attitudes of great value for the society of knowledge.

Below you can find generic and specific competences of the degree in Industrial Design Engineering and Product Development:

Specific competences

Cross-curricular competences

• Innovation ability, initiative, and creativity.
• Self-learning ability, planning, and organization of personal work.
• Ability to organize and manage efficiently the resources and know technological tools of access and dissemination of information to the professional-academic development.
• Ability to integrate ideas and learn new methods, techniques and knowledge, as well as adapting to new situations.
• Ability to critical thinking, analysis and synthesis of information coming from various sources.
• Ability to find the best method when solving problems and interpret and draw conclusions from its result.
• Ability to argue and defend ideas accepting other viewpoints.
• Ability to make decisions and work in teams by assuming different roles (leader, secretary, spokesperson,…) and responsibilities, respecting and promoting the fundamental rights, equality of opportunities between men and women, the principles of universal accessibility for disabled people, and values such as peace and democratic values.
• Ability to propose solutions to the social and environmental needs valuing its impact.
• Ability to socialize in academic and professional environments at national and international level.
• Ability to communicate fluently and with correctness, orally and written, in Spanish and English, any information related to the professional activity.
• Mastering the ICTs.
• Ability to apply the acquired knowledge to the tasks and solving problems within the engineering area.
• Ability to provide solutions that respect professional ethics, environmental awareness, and search of excellence and quality.
• To develop abilities to undertake further studies autonomously.
• To observe, interpret, and document design trends.
• To be able to design and redesign products and services.
• To conduct prospective studies.
• To know and handle concepts of probability, descriptive statistics, and statistical inference, as well as mastering the design of experiments and statistical controls of quality.
• To know and handle adequately the concepts and fundamentals of mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and optics.
• Ability to use programming for solving problems in the industrial design area.
• Ability to edit images and its versatile and dynamic use in the communication process.
• Ability to implement creativity in the representation process.
• Ability to generate all the graphic documentation necessary for the process of product’s conception.
• Ability and skills to use design methodologies towards the conception and the development of products.
• Ability to apply different methods, techniques and instruments in the representation process.
• To know and apply perception and interaction processes between the product and the user.
• To know the historical and technical evolution of the design and products.
• Ability to generate all the technical graphic documentation necessary to the development of a product using their own tools of the present graphic communication.
• Ability to perform the redesign and validation of a product with CAE tools.
• To analyse the industrial design sector by proposing alternatives to actively contribute to the managing of strategic plans and entrepreneurial innovation, analysing the impact of the design on the user, society, the market, and assessing its consequences.
• To carry out an economic-financial analysis of the data of a company to plan, organize, run projects and manage the launch of new products, identifying modes of action adequate for its correct management and commercialization taking into account the market and the user’s needs.
• To know and be able to apply theories, strategies and techniques inherent in the processes of communication and commercialization of products having into consideration the corporate image as a means of communication.
• To develop an overall view of the multimedia communication systems and analyse aspects related to creativity, the electronic design and graphic interface for the appropriate communication, analysis and creation of multimedia products and applications.
• Understand the mechanic performance of the materials and interpret the results of the characterization tests.
• To know the fundamentals of the manufacturing processes and having an overall view of the industrial manufacturing methods used for the transformation of the materials.
• Ability to define the equipment-mould–tools necessary for the processing.
• Ability to apply the fundamentals of assisted manufacture (CNC/CAM) oriented to any of the processes of manufacture studied.
• To apply the methodology of selection of materials and processes of manufacture.
• To acquire the knowledge on calculus of structures necessary to be able to solve the problems that can arise in the design of a product.
• Ability to plan and develop a design depending on the demands and functional requirements that affect the product under creation.
• To know the different mechanic elements and be able to select the elements necessary for the correct functioning of the designed product/system.
• To know the different pneumatic and hydraulic elements for diverse mechanical applications and design fulfilling the specific conditions.
• To question existing concepts of a product.
• Ability to define, organize, manage and write projects within the industrial design field and product development.