Enhancing engineering competencies curricula in the context of university-industry chairs

Abstract

University-industry Chairs can play a key role to enhance the acquisition of certain curricular competencies of the Engineering Degrees such as teamwork capability, oral and written communication skills, entrepreneurship initiative and industrial environment knowledge, all of them highly valued and long demanded by the industrial companies. This paper describes the organizational framework and the main programs of the Chair of Renewable Energies of the Public University of Navarre and evaluates how it is contributing effectively to improving the acquisition of these competencies and skills.