Academic Criteria to Guide and Assess the Academic Work in Engineering Degree

Abstract

This article presents a methodology to guide and assess the academic work in institutions that carry out research on engineering. It lies in materializing, by means of academic criteria, the generality of the National Development and Normativity Program of the National Science and Technology Council (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, conacyt), particularly about legislation of institutions,collegiate bodies, departments or faculties and the profile of graduated students. The criteria proposeessentially a qualitative assessment and are applied to the academic collectives in order to counteract thefragmentation and breakup between Science, Technology and Innovation and the need to find solutionsto national problems, without taking into account the Journal Citations Reports. The authors show this by means of a case study.