Thirty Years of Teaching Graphic Engineering Projects at the Barcelona School of Engineering

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AbstractThe Projects department of the Barcelona School of Industrial Technical Engineering (EUETIB) was one of the first to opt for working with parametric and associative CAD software in the subject of Drawing, a pioneer in implementing SolidWorks (SW) in graphic engineering learning. The parametric conception combined with the intelligent geometric functions, and the variational and bidirectional design, allowed the recently graduated student body to have knowledge at the forefront of the moment. The 09–10 academic year began degree studies adapted to the European Higher Education Area. The applied methodology emphasized students as protagonists of the learning process and was developed in ECTS credits, providing significant improvements in the teaching of spatial geometry. In the remodeling of the subject, the idea of a Project was promoted, in a group and in a non-face-to-face way. The project involves developing skills related to the ability to spatial vision and knowledge of graphic representation techniques using computer-aided design. The autonomous learning competence is valued, based on carrying out the assigned tasks in the foreseen time, working with the indicated sources of information, in accordance with the guidelines set by the teaching staff. Since the 10–11 academic year, the author of this communication has asked his students to put together a video with a cinematic animation of his project. The best project videos can be seen in a YouTube playlist. The videos are a complementary tool for the development of the graphic engineering Project.KeywordsProjectSolidWorksYouTubeTeamworkGraphic engineering