Using open software in engineering studies: a sustainable tool
- Maria González Alriols
- Alvaro Campos-Celador
- Alain ULAZIA MANTEROLA
- Aitor Urresti González
- Gabriel Ibarra-Berastegi
- Miren Mirari ANTXUSTEGI BENGOETXEA
ISSN: 1887-9810
Année de publication: 2017
Número: 8
Pages: 207-218
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Revista Forum de Sostenibilidad = Forum Iraunkortasun aldizkaria = Sustainability Forum journal
Résumé
This work presents a proposal of integration of specialized open software in the field of renewable energies engineering tuition as a tool to work within sustainable development criteria in this field of knowledge. In order to reach a deep knowledge of the computer programs, high enough to provide the students with an actual skill at expert level for their professional career, it was decided to develop a practical progam based on the application of this open software through several subjects of the engineering studies. The idea was to give the students the opportunity of working with different applications available in the software and apply them to work with several renewable energies (bioenergy, solar, wind, ocean or hydraulic energies) and their application. The used software, QGIS and R, allow working with several aspects related to water, wind, sea and biomass resources helping to resolv problems of renewable energies installation in actual cases. The way in which these tools are introduced and taught through different subjects under a multidisciplinary perspec-tive helps students to reach a good command of the mentioned tools. The fact of using open soft-ware tools perfectly matches learning under sustainable development criteria.