Strengthening the interaction of art and science through rubric-based evaluation models: The final degree project of the dual degree of engineering in industrial design and mechanical engineering

Abstract

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the most prestigious institutions in technological innovation, incorporates art and creativity as a distinctive element of its research, technological degrees, humanities and creative subjects. Unfortunately, art and creativity do not have the same consideration. This study intends to present a work line corresponding to the art-science integration, which is part of a renovation-didactic-project developed in the study-area of industrial design at the Higher Technical School of Engineering and Industrial Design (EscuelaTécnica Superior de Ingeniería y Diseño Industrial, ETSIDI of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain). The benefits of rubric use in order to facilitate a creative-aspects-evaluation guide in the double degree of Engineering in Industrial Design and in Mechanical Engineering will be analysed precisely.