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The development of 21st century skills allows the training of competent students prepared for work and social life. The improvement of these skills, necessary for engineering students and future engineers, can be favored with training in Secondary Education Stage. Specifically, the Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology includes the performance of different activities that allow the acquisition of both conceptual and procedural skills. This article describes the relationship between the skills that high school students develop when they work with PBL and the competences (ABET engineering skills) they acquire. In addition, an objective evaluation of the learning outcomes of 129 Secondary students who carried out 34 projects is made and these results are related to the skills needed to achieve them.

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  1. Facultad de Educación, University of Burgos, c/Villadiego, 1, 09001, Burgos, Spain

    Miguel Ángel Queiruga-Dios & María Diez-Ojeda

  2. Department of Didactics of Mathematics, University of Valencia, Av. Tarongers, 4, 46022, València, Spain

    Emilia López-Iñesta

  3. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, University of Burgos, Comendadores, 09001, Burgos, Spain

    María Consuelo Sáiz-Manzanares

  4. Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial, University of Vigo, Lagoas-Marcosende, 36310, Vigo, Spain

    José Benito Vázquez Dorrío

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Queiruga-Dios, M.Á., López-Iñesta, E., Diez-Ojeda, M., Sáiz-Manzanares, M.C., Vázquez Dorrío, J.B. (2021). Developing Engineering Skills in Secondary Students Through STEM Project Based Learning. In: Herrero, Á., Cambra, C., Urda, D., Sedano, J., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) The 11th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Educational (ICEUTE 2020). ICEUTE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57799-5_27

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