Resumen

MARULANDA, Agustín; PIRES, María  y  DELGADO, José Gregorio. Electrical engineering: toward a proposal for a curriculum design to develop competences. Rev. Fac. Ing. UCV [online]. 2010, vol.25, n.3, pp.67-75. ISSN 0798-4065.

The school of Electrical Engineering at LUZ is carrying out a holistic investigation of the projective type to respond to current demands of society through its curriculum. It is a transectional contemporaneous design; the case under study is an integral curriculum expressed in competences and the synergies are general, basic and specific competences. Its purpose is to reach a projective stage, passing through exploratory, descriptive, analytical and comparative stages. This paper reports the results obtained in the first three stages of the investigation in terms of specific competences. Results show that the training plan contemplates the development of four specific competences: Mathematics and Electromagnetism, Electronics and Control, Power and Telecommunications, as well as their corresponding achievement indicators expressed according to cognitive, procedural and attitudinal dimensions. The proposed plan reduces theoretical professional training and strengthens professional practice, distributing it along the course. Furthermore, it strengthens complementary training and maintains a better balance in basic and professional training. It is concluded that this proposal is innovative because it responds to demands from labor and social environments and is based on current regulations.

Palabras clave : Integral curriculum; Specific Competencies; Curriculum design to develop competencies; Electrical Engineering; Electrical engineer profile.