I'm going to start to point out the work of my pupils. I think this is the reason of the work at University, I mean, the students. So, today I would like to mention the excellent TFG carried out by Pablo Canseco and Edgar Imaz.
The have been worked in the development of a new movable scaffolding system and the study of the reconstruction of the port of Cudillero, Asturias, Spain, after the heavy storms in 2013 and 2014.
Congratulations for your results.

I do not believe in QUALITY. I do not believe in surveys. I do not.
At least when this things are going together and are used by ignorants with the aim of pretending knowing.
So let me share this paper with you and you will see. Yo will become truly non believer like me. Or much better than that, you will only believe in real things, important things, reasonable things.

An Evaluation of Course Evaluations (click).
Philip B. Stark, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
stark@stat.berkeley.edu
Richard Freishtat, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
rfreishtat@berkeley.edu
26 September 2014.

This is like a motto, something that you must keep in mind when you find in your way someone who never should have got power over others.

The first edition of this Competition took place last year at University of Oviedo (E.P.M. and E.P.I.G.). It was a nice experience, 50 students ran for the prize and we all learned a lot, I hope so.
Sponsored by:
Tableros y Puentes, S.A.
FCC.
Ogensa.
AST Ingeniería.
Coprosa.
ACHE, Asociación Científico-Técnica del Hormigón Estructural.
Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Demarcación de Asturias
RJB Design Studio.
Escuela Politécnica de Mieres, Universidad de Oviedo.

"Conferencias Aula Abierta:
De maceta a rascacielos. El hormigón armado, la invención de un material. November 07, 2014, 12 p.m."
Mercedes López García. Profesora titular de Estética de la Ingeniería de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

A really interesting conference.
link

Some investigations have led experts to assess that G. Eiffel designed a steel truss bridge in Asturias: the "Parana" Viaduct in the railway from Lena to Pajares.

The story ended in 1954, when someone decided that the bridge was no longer available for the new convoyes...

More information:
http://elblogdeacebedo.blogspot.com.es/2014/08/el-problema-del-puente-arroyo-parana.html

Dr. Rosignoli has 32 years of experience in bridge design and construction in the US and abroad. He has worked with bridge contractors, designers, and owners in over 20 countries and four continents, serving as designer, reviewer, or technical leader for cable-stayed bridges, incrementally launched bridges, balanced-cantilever bridges, and light rail and high-speed railway bridges. An international authority on mechanized bridge construction and the incremental launching of bridges, he is the author of three books on bridge launching and mechanized bridge construction and more than 90 papers on bridge design and construction technology and holds more than 30 patents on bridge construction methods. He is also author of Chapter 6 of ASBI Construction Practices Handbook and of Chapter 6.37.40 of UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, he has founded and is chairing IABSE WG-6 Bridge Construction Equipment. He is member of ASBI Technical Advisory Committee, ASCE member, and IABSE fellow. He has published two "must-read" during the last year:

If you want to know what these four letters mean, please read "Los ingenieros de caminos" by Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo (ed. Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, 1993).
Nowadays it is rather improbably that you will get the real concept, at least in some High School institutions. Nobody knows and nobody will explain to you.
Well, let me drop some thoughts. You will be able to teach something if you have learnt it, if you have done it. Our students don't need actors, politicians, governors, bureaucrats... but teachers: a teacher is side by side with pupils; and he is side by side with reality too.
Nowadays those want us to be called Civil Engineers. The more those say the word "quality" (regarding to teaching and learning) the less you can expect from them.
Students must not be blamed because of neither the educative collapse of the Engineering nor the fall of the Institution so called University... long time ago.
I'm afraid we will keep writing about this... unfortunately.