In other words, there is a need to deepen into research and innovaton tasks aiming at improving such studies within this new educatonal paradigm. Not to menton, two crucial aspects which are very ofen neglected, namely, reaching maximum efciency of all types of available resources and obtaining a “knock on efect” from students and teachers at Secondary school level. The later playing a crucial role so as to increase students’ awareness of the importance that Chemistry has at this partcular educatonal level. | Journal of Technology and Science Education CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A KEY FACTOR FOR SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT Juan Antonio Llorens-Molina1, Gabriel Pinto2 1 . de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, . de Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Spain juallom2@, The peculiarity of Chemistry as a basic subject in Engineering Studies and its embedded potental difcultes are maters which are now common to universites worldwide. In partcular, the learning of Chemistry in the new (post Bologna) degrees of Engineering in Spain and other countries is facing several challenges. In other words, there is a need to deepen into research and innovaton tasks aiming at improving such studies within this new educatonal paradigm. Not to menton, two crucial aspects which are very ofen neglected, namely, reaching maximum efciency of all types of available resources and obtaining a “knock on efect” from students and teachers at Secondary school level. The later playing a crucial role so as to increase students’ awareness of the importance that Chemistry has at this partcular educatonal level. Not to menton, how this increases their motvaton towards this subject in the Higher Educaton scenario. These challenges concern not only the relevance of the contents per se but also the methodological tools involved. Being more precise, we could summarize them as follows: • • • • The need to reach a greater relevance of Chemistry contents through its social and technological contextualizaton, linking them to both academic and professional profles within the several degrees right from the very frst year. In this sense, it might be necessary to have a deeper refecton on some of the contents traditonally included in the introductory Chemistry courses by following its advances as a Science as well as its technological applicatons. To relate Chemistry subjects with .
