The first paper by Domingo Alfonso Martín Sánchez and Ana García Laso is entitled “Experiences in social innovation. A platform for ethics through a school of engineering studies”. This contribution presents the strategy followed in the Mines and Energy Engineering School of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM from its name in Spanish) to enhance social learning through a program based on the assembly of training practices on Mentoring, Service Learning and social consciousness (Ethics and values in engineering).
The second paper by Manchado-Pérez et al. is entitled “Value of adaptation of methodologies between different knowledge areas in the context of project based learning: a case in industrial design engineering university degree”. This article introduces a case of the successful adaptation of the methodology of Systems of Layouts, as used in Graphic Design, to a University Degree of Engineering in Industrial Design and Product Development.