Each academic year, ULL centres implement Guidance and Tutorial Action Plans (POAT) to be developed in their degrees to provide students with support and guidance systems once they have enrolled.

The training activities included in the POAT address various topics through which it is intended to facilitate the students' academic-professional decision-making at their different stages (reception and integration into the centre and the university, guidance throughout the degree and for their incorporation into the labour market), which will allow them to successfully complete the degree and adapt to new demands: autonomous learning strategies, teamwork, improving academic performance results, resolving difficulties, information and advice on external internships and final degree project, guidance on existing mobility programmes, demands and characteristics of the labour market, etc.

By being enrolled at ULL, students of the degree can participate in the POAT of their center, benefiting from:

• The training and information activities provided throughout the degree.
• Advice from your tutor/teacher, who will support you in your intellectual, academic and professional concerns.
• Its recognition in ECTS credits – 1 per academic year – as set out in the Regulations for the Recognition of Credits for Participation in University Activities in Official Undergraduate Studies.

The Guidance and Tutorial Action Plan (POAT) of the Nautical, Machinery and Naval Radioelectronics Section, which includes the Degree in Marine Technologies, is part of the requirements for improving the quality of teaching provided for in the Internal Quality Assurance System (SGIC) of the School.

Quality Assurance is an essential objective of university policy and an axis around which other fundamental good practice criteria are articulated for the verification and accreditation of official teaching, in accordance with the provisions of the construction of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). In this context, student guidance and tutoring become a necessity and a key element of quality.

The Section's Annual Work Plan (POAT) is conceived as a sustained effort with a broad timeframe. The rationale behind such a plan is the growing understanding of the relationship between, on the one hand, student learning and outcomes (along with teacher satisfaction with their performance) and, on the other hand, student guidance, quality tutoring, and adequate information.

The POAT is coordinated in the Section by Mª del Cristo Adrián de Ganzo and is integrated into the POAT Commission of the Higher Polytechnic School of Engineering.

List of teaching staff and tutors of the Poat of the Higher Polytechnic School of Engineering for the academic year 2021-2022

Activities for the 2020-2021 academic year

• Welcome ceremony 

Pending completion

• How to develop curricular internships in a company 
• Development and management of web forms with Google Forms: application to the nautical-maritime field. 
• Requirements for professional practice in the merchant marine 
• Talk about the activity of a shipping company 
• Presentation of job opportunities dedicated to research in the sector
• Training talks with MM professionals, etc.

Documentation of interests

• Regulations on progress and permanence in official ULL degrees