The motivation that students have when they course the different subjects plays an important role to acquire the corresponding knowledge. One idea to enhance the lack of motivation in subjects that have applications in real live is just to show such applications during the teaching period. This real applications can be shown in a relatively easy way in the subject called "Theory of Structures" given in the master in Industrial Technology Engineering. This topic can be considered as a continuation of the subject "Elasticity and Strength of Materials" and provides the fundamental knowledge to deal with different techniques of "Structural Analysis". The aim of the course is to learn different methods that allow the determination of the stress and strain states on different structural components and structures subjected to external actions. These stress and strain states have to fulfill the established requirements, according to the corresponding normative. Two hours long workshop, called "Structural Topology Optimization" is introduced during the course. In the traditional design process the starting point is usually a previous defined distribution of connected bars that makes up the structure and, through analytical methods, dimensions (cross sections) of all elements are obtained. This previous defined domain is obtained from the experience or "trial-error" methods. Introducing Topology Optimization in the design process the starting point can be the most simple and general design domain compatible with the supports and the loads. During the sequence the optimal material distribution in the structure will be obtained by mathematical programming.