The Universidad Autonoma de Occidente has a solid Engineering School with nine programs. For the School is
very important the basic training of its students because this gives them a structured thought and many of the
professional skills they need. The School curriculum includes the basic cycle engineering, composed by three
subjects: Introduction to Engineering 1, Introduction to Engineering 2 and Basic design, which develop the basic
skills of engineers in an incremental and evolutionary way (as a spiral). Some innovations had been implemented
in these subjects but the students still do not understand the relationship between them. This work presents a
project that involves teams of students from each subject to work collaboratively in the creation of problem
situation’s solutions. The project includes problem identification, project planning and conceptual design of the
solution. In order to complete this project, each teacher defines six groups of students whose results are given to other groups in the following subject to continue the project. At the end, the students understand better the relation
between the subjects, improving their communication and teamwork skills. However, to generate meaningful
conclusions other interventions are needed, used instruments and synchronization of the project’s stages should be
improved. Nevertheless, the results allow confirming that this kind of collaborative project facilitates the
student’s training process and helps them develop their professional and personal skills.
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