Abstract

Good results in professional practice demand collaborative work with professionals from different disciplines. However, developing these skills still needs to be reinforced during higher education. This article describes creating and developing an interdisciplinary undergraduate course around indoor environmental quality (IEQ). Four academic units combine to integrate students from careers linked to the exact sciences and the humanities under the institutional framework to strengthen interdisciplinary work. Based on active teaching-learning strategies with a high focus on learning by doing, students were organized into teams to build prototypes for monitoring. The objective of the course was to provide knowledge associated with environmental variables that affect our perception and comfort of spaces and to provide evaluation and analysis tools for these environmental conditions. The theoretical and practical foundations on which the course was structured are described, and the different teaching strategies implemented.