We present the design process of a Study and Research Path (SRP) in a course of General Elasticity, belonging to a degree of Mechanical Engineering. General elasticity is a field with a high presence of mathematical modelling, and in fact, it cannot be conceived without mathematics. We take as a starting point the observation of several didactic facts associated to the actual pedagogical and didactical organization of the course. The SRP design tries to overcome these didactical facts by proposing a possible new rationale for teaching General Elasticity.

We have carried out an a priori analysis of the SRP in order to evaluate to what extent the generating question is rich enough to act as the main motivation of the community of study. A systematic plan to collect data during experimentation is also presented.