Autoevaluación de la Carrera de Ingeniería Automotriz de la Facultad de Mecánica de la Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo.

Abstract

This work consisted on the Automotive Career Engineering Self Assessment in the Mechanics School at the Polytechnic University of Chimborazo. The career self-assessment in the students, teachers and curriculum areas were achieved. This work was done for breeding purposes, applying the proposal titled: SelfAssessment . Guide for accreditation purposes for undergraduate programs of Universities and Polytechnics in Ecuador" (ex CONEA ). The research was carried out based on pre-established procedures, shown in the selfevaluation guide, which allowed collecting data, process, analyzing the gathered information and assessing and weighing the information. Interviews, surveys and workshop information were used. As instruments for interviews, a guide for the workshop and a questionnaire for the survey were used. In the process, it was evaluated 41 standards where 6 were related to students, 9 related to teachers and 26 to the Curriculum scope. The study described as weakness to 6 standards, indicating that there are partial achievements, with outliers. In 35 standards, the Career achieves a rating of good to very good, with a percentage of 65.46%. These results, according to the SelfAssessment, and Accreditation Criteria are a fortress, indicating a significant advance; there should be concern and substantial improvements. The investigation showed the career strengths and limitations. The results should be used by officials of Automotive Engineering Career, to take the necessary mechanisms to achieve accreditation of this career.