Design and implementation of the methodology Project Based Learning (PBL). The MART case.

Abstract

MART (Málaga Racing Team), founded in 2016, is a multidisciplinary team composed of more than seventy students enrolled in eighteen bachelor´s and two master´s degrees at the University of Málaga. This team, organised in two main areas (technical and business), designs, develops and manufactures a vehicle that participates in Formula Student, a motor racing competition, between students from universities around the world, such as, Spain, Germany, The United States of America, Brazil, The Netherlands, China or Australia. To gain access to these competitions, students must pass very demanding exams that are simultaneously held between the participating universities.

The purpose of this paper is to define and develop the process followed by MART to design and implement the methodology PBL and to show, academically and professionally, the main achievements and results obtained by the team.