With more than 2,000 students, the Polytechnic CIFP of Murcia has become the reference center in the preparation of technicians from the eight families it has: Electricity and Electronics; Building and Civil Works; Mechanical manufacturing; Administration and finance; Trade and Marketing; Transportation and Vehicle Maintenance; Health, and Installation and Maintenance. It has 28 training cycles, eight Dual Vocational Training projects, three English bilingual cycles and four specialization courses, comparable to a master’s degree at the university.
The center, which has all the VT modalities (face-to-face, ‘online’ and Dual), has become a reference thanks to its commitment to research, innovation and development. It coordinates one of the 141 national projects of innovation and applied research and knowledge transfer in Vocational Training granted by the Ministry of Education.
The project, called ‘Intelligent sensors for the digitization of industrial maintenance in I4.0. Funded by the European Union-Next Generation Eu’, it is coordinated by the Department of Electricity and Electronics and, in addition to this centre, the Murcian companies CTIcontrol and Minfor Engineering, together with the IES Ribera de Castilla and the company Nebecao Sistemas participate in it. , these last two from Valladolid. “We have created a synergistic project of knowledge and technological advances that is difficult to achieve only in an educational environment,” they explain from the center.
The objective of the initiative, which arose when the ‘Industrial Maintenance Digitization’ specialization course was implemented at the center, is the design and manufacture of sensors for capturing variables in the industrial environment and sending them via Wi-Fi and 5G, in addition to of its integration with IOT technology and subsequent implementation in production lines in industry 4.0. “The MQTT protocol is used to make these sensors send the information to the cloud just like any home automation device in a home does,” they highlight. Among others, one of the objectives of the project is to promote women’s access to Vocational Training profiles related to STEAM professions (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), “in order to banish stereotypes of gender-specific professions male and awaken a greater number of scientific vocations among female students and, in particular, ensure that our project increases women’s access to training cycles related to science and technology”, they explain.
All these steps have been of great interest to the participating students. Through this system, they have been able not only to acquire knowledge, but also security and skill when practicing in a real way. All this has given them “sufficient motivation to undertake development and implementation projects, blurring the concept of outsourcing manufacturing,” he summarizes.
Continuous learning
The development of projects related to companies is not a new activity at the CIFP Politécnico de Murcia. Based on the three basic pillars of VT (Educational Center, Business and Administration), it is a continuous promoter of new technologies and professionals for the Region, and promotes their inclusion in educational projects and initiatives in which their students have proven their worth. In this sense, he has participated in the FP SpainSkills 2022 national championships, in which he has obtained two bronze medals in the specialties of Electrical Installations and CAD Mechanical Design.
Currently, it is immersed, together with the IES Sanje (Alcantarilla) and the IES José Luis Castillo Puche (Yecla) in the development of a replica of Juan de la Cierva’s C-30 autogyro, in addition to participating in European projects Erasmus+.
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