One more year, the Innovation Area of the Engineering School and ICT Department publishes a summary of our most relevant activities, studies and actions carried out during the last year, 2023.

As you know, the Innovation Area works on conducting studies and improving the teaching quality in our School through a range of initiatives, as well as on promoting innovative actions undertaken by teachers or proposed by the Direction of the School or ourselves. Moreover, we conduct analyses and publish reports on the monitoring, verification and accreditation processes of the degrees at our School, at all levels: undergraduate degrees, masters and doctorates. All this information can be found on the web of the UCA, section Quality (upf.edu/web/enginyeria/qualitat). For information published by the Innovation Area, please visit our website, section Data and Indicators (https://www.upf.edu/es/web/usquid-etic/dades-i-indicadors).

In 2023, the Innovation Area led the study “Study and analysis of the academic-training management of double degrees in Catalan public universities: teaching innovation, good practices and lessons learned” and participated in others. All the details can be consulted in the “Projects” section available on the center's Innovation Area website (https://www.upf.edu/ca/web/usquid-etic/projectes).

During 2023 the following articles were also published:

• Rodriguez Rementeria, A., González Cárdenas, A., Moreno Oliver, V., Santos, P. (2023). "Comparative analysis of good practices in the organization, monitoring and assessment of the Final Degree Project: National and international perspective in the field of Engineering". Revista del CIDUI: Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació, 6.
• Moreno Oliver, V., Adan, A., Santos, P. (2023). "Analysis of the use of laboratories as learning spaces in ICT Engineering degrees: where we are and where we are going". Libro de actas de CIDICO, 2023.

In addition, reports were prepared derived from various analyzes such as: analysis of the use of laboratories as learning spaces, analysis of the use of ChatGPT among our teaching staff (this study continues during 2024), analysis and improvement in the management of the TFG (Monitoring and evaluation guide) together with the coordinator of the TFG and the Center Director, analysis of the performance of the TFG (2023), etc.

We kindly remind you that summaries of all these projects, studies and analyses are available on our website. There you can also find resources for teachers (upf.edu/web/usquid-etic/recursos-profesorado) and students (upf.edu/web/usquid-etic/recursos-estudiantes), which are regularly updated. In the section Data and Indicators, you can find summaries of the studies. You can access the corresponding full texts on the Intranet.

Do not hesitate to contact us via email: [email protected]