Gaps Between Skills Required by Industry 4.0 and Academic Programs Focused on Icts: A Case Study of Computer Science Degrees in a Spanish University

IN4WOOD: A Successful European Training Action of Industry 4.0 for Academia and Business

“…Unfortunately, there is a strong absence of VET/HE entities offering official degrees or training courses focused on I4.0 [39]. Moreover, the skills reached through those degrees focused on ICT are a bit far from what I4.0 claims, as some studies point out [6], [40].…”

Contributing to the planning and deployment of enabling technologies for Smart Cities and Smart Factories

“…The candidate was hired with funds of this project for 24 months (April 2017 to March 2019). The contributions the candidate developed in the framework of this project were: [Bueno17], [Romero17], [Bueno17b], [Romero18], [Romero18a], [Bueno19], [Romero20].…”

“…In second place, the work [Romero17] was presented at the XXXII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI2017), Cartagena, Spain. Work in [Bueno17b] was presented at the 10th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2017) in Seville, Spain. Continuing with the same thematic block, but in 2020, some works were developed, such as the ones in [Romero20], that it was submitted in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, being this work under revision at the time this thesis was deposited, [Romero20b], presented at the 12th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies and [Romero20c] accepted in Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia (RIED) Journal.…”

“…This chapter gathers the contributions presented in the following works, where the PhD student contributed: [Bueno17], [Romero17], [Bueno17b], [Romero20], [Romero20b] and [Romero20c].…”

“…Respondents in both continents had almost the same opinion (good) about the importance of automation and mechanization in the wood / furniture / habitat industry, and, although most of them are conscious about the need of transforming industry to the digital evolution through automation and mechanization, in MY and EU the percentages are similar (low) when the respondents are asked if they are aware of which technologies are used in the industry presently. From the results it can be concluded that the area of expertise does not have influence, and these results could be influenced by the fact that respondents have not enough knowledge about automation and new technologies if they are running the first courses of a bachelor's degree, or maybe by other factors such us HE programs with obsolete contents [Bueno17] [Bueno17b], contents in subjects with low examples of application in industry, respondents with no experience in industry, etc.…”