Problem-Efficient Solution in Engineering Students’ Project through Adequate Strategies Based on Flowcharts Design

Abstract

Currently, postgraduate students have greater difficulty in the problems they must solve during the development of their projects since more specialized strategies are required to provide an adequate solution. Because the basic tools that they learned during the degree are no longer sufficient to solve the complexity that arises from these problems, it is necessary to rethink the way in which they approach them, and to allow them, through review and feedback cycles, to evaluate whether their procedure is correct. Therefore, this chapter presents a strategy based on the appropriate design of flowcharts that allow the student to divide a complex engineering problem into stages that are easier to work on, while allowing them to organize their times and manage them. Likewise, this strategy will serve as a generalized tool to be applied to any engineering problem. A case study is presented in which the flowchart design strategy is applied and validated through simulated tests and real experimentation.