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Technology is currently ubiquitous and is also part of the educational system at all levels. It started with communication technology systems, and later continued with digital competence. Nowadays, although these previous concepts are still in force and are useful for students and workers in general, a new concept has been born that can function as a cross-curricular competence called Computational Thinking. There is currently no consensus on the definition of computational thinking, nor on the classification of its skills, but there is a consensus that it refers to a set of skills necessary for the formulation and resolution of problems. The study of Computational Thinking has been very influential in recent years in research on teaching and learning processes, which has led educational institutions to begin to address these issues during training. In this paper, we try to introduce this new cross-curricular competence and expose a project of implementation of Computational Thinking in engineering careers through Calculus subject.

Technologies related to the Internet of Things (IoT) have seen remarkable growth in recent years. This has facilitated, among many other reasons, that monitoring systems have spread in many everyday areas, including both industry and the services and systems of the so-called smart home. These systems can also be applied in Engineering and in Education for the different existing engineering degrees; and one of the fields is sustainability. A project related to sustainability and student practices has been launched at our university. In this way, several objectives are achieved at the same time, such as the transfer of knowledge from universities to society, and also the development of sustainable education, in line with the sustainable development goals. In this framework, we want to apply the ideas of monitoring through IoT applications, by means of the measurement of certain environmental factors that occur both in an urban garden and in a composting process. Only open hardware-based devices have been used in the project. The proposed model can be applied in other areas of knowledge, having considered different alternatives and having chosen the best elements, based on sustainability criteria, for each section of the project. Specifically, in the system that has been created, the environmental factors of a small urban garden and also of a composting box can be measured. Both sections of the project, garden and composting, are located at the university. The factors to be measured are the following: air temperature, air humidity, soil moisture, ultraviolet radiation and amount of light (luminosity) received in the urban garden; and temperature and humidity in the composting process.

In this world of the digital era, in which we are living, one of the fundamental competences that students must acquire is the competence in Computational Thinking (CT). Although there is no general consensus on a formal definition, there is a general understanding of it as a set of skills and attitudes necessary for the resolution, with or without a computer, of problems that may arise in any area of life. Measuring and evaluating which of the CT skills students have acquired is fundamental, and for this purpose, previously validated measuring instruments must be used. In this study, a previously validated instrument is applied to know if the new students in the Engineering Degrees of the University of the Basque Country have the following skills in CT: Critical Thinking, Algorithmic Thinking, Problem Solving, Cooperativity and Creativity.