ISBN:978-84-613-2955-7 STUDY OF COMPETENCES AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES ON THE INDUSTRIAL ENGENEERING DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSITY JAUME I OF CASTELLON (SPAIN) Ana Piquer, Ignacio Peñarrocha Universitat Jaume I Castellón, Spain Ana.Piquer@uji.es, ipenarro@esid.uji.es Abstract A transfor mation of the present degree in Industrial Engineering is required due to the changing Higher Education framework in Spain. This involves a whole revision of the degree s and adapting them to the Higher Education European Area and the ministerial orders [1] . The transformation in Industrial Engineering involves the creation of a first Graduate degree in Industrial Technologies followed by a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering which will provides the career attributions of the current Industrial Enginee rs. The main objective of our work is to compile the information needed to facilitate the development of the new corresponding Graduate and Master’s degrees curricula. This article summarizes the competences promoted by the teachers in charge of the curren t Industrial Engineering degree, also the importance that they give to these competences in their areas of knowledge. It also links the competences with the training activities performed to achieve them. During this work the information related to the specific and general competences have been collected as well as the training activities performed to achieve them in 60 different subjects . This includes both compulsory and elective subjects from the different specialities. 23 generic competences, over 500 specific competences and 12 categories of training activities used in the learning process have been defined and linked to different activities. Keywords - Development of degree curricula, Industrial Engineering, competences, training activities. 1 INTRODUCTION The coming changes related with the new situation of the European Higher Education Area and according to the proposal of Guidelines for the Development of University degrees of Graduate and Master submitted by the Ministry of Education and Science in December 2006 [2], the degrees curricula require an important change . For the development of such degrees curricula is necessary to have the information of the contents to be transmitted to students. This contents have to be based on competences and training activities undertaken to achieve them. Before these changes the Universit y Jaume I (UJI) maintains a conservative policy that wants to give continuity to the current degrees. In this way the University proposes a transformation of current degrees to the new Grade and Master’s degrees. Thus, in the case of Industrial Engineering the possibility managed consists of maintaining the Graduate degree in “Engineering in Industrial Technologies" and a later Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering . This Master will provide the professional attributions of the current Industrial Engineer. In order to having all the information of the current subjects on the basis of compet ences and training activities, the following study has been carried out. In Section 2 it is described how the information was compiled, in Section 3 the processing of such information is shown, and in section 4 the most interesting conclusions are summarized. In addition, in the Annex, the form prepared for the compilation of the information can be observed. 2 ACTUAL COMPETENCES AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES ON THE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSITY JAUME I With the main objective of collecting relevant information for developing the new degree curricula in the field of engineering, all teachers of current subjects of Industrial Engineering Degree have been Proceedings of ICERI2009 Conference. 16th-18th Nov 2009, Madrid, Spain. 002194