Implementación de laboratorios 2.0 para mecánica de fluidos - [Implementation of labs 2.0 for fluid mechanics]

Abstract

- A series of improvements have been developed for the digitization of the Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics laboratories that are studied in the fluid subjects of the 2nd year of various degrees in the ETSIME of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. This experience is carried out during the academic year 2020-21, accelerated in part due to the problems caused by the pandemic in the academic year 2019-20. Summary videos of the practices, updated the manuals, and maintained the face-to-face sessions in small groups have been done. For the delivery of results, some applications have been developed in Matlab to be used by the student. In these applications the student performs or chooses the calculations or solutions to what has been seen in the laboratory, performs mini-games and discusses the results obtained. The overall improvement in the delivery of results compared to the classic paper method is around 11%, being more important in men than in women. The students' appreciation of the new methodology, based on surveys, is quite good with values higher than 4 out of 5 in all groups in both genders.