Impacto de la Calidad Internacional en la Educación Superior de México

Published in: Engineering Innovations for Global Sustainability: Proceedings of the 14th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference: July 20-22, 2016
Location of Conference: San Jose, Costa Rica
Authors: Enrique A. Morales González
José Humberto Loría Arcila
Margarita Díaz Olaldez
Miriam del C. Flores Castillo
Refereed Paper: #400

Abstract:

This document describes the international trends in educational field and its impact on the quality of Higher Education for engineering in Mexico. Due to the expansion of student enrollment in higher education, a wide education availability, new technologies and emerging global networks, higher education has been involved in a constant change of methods to demonstrate quality on national and international level. In this paper, the term “quality” is defined as a comparison reference between several homologous elements or under a certain reference standard. Besides, the concept of Quality Assurance is presented beneath two scopes: responsibility and improvement; The first one is focused on the accountability that Higher Education Institutions must do to the State and Society; And the second one is focused in the internal control and continuous improvement of the effectiveness of education. In other words; there are two principal perspectives: an external approach and an internal approach. This last view is taken by most countries in America and Europe, promoting the creation of bodies responsible for accrediting engineering programs in international level. In Mexico, there are more than 70 higher education engineering programs accredited by at least an internationally recognized accreditation association. Considering the principal accreditation associations on Canada, United States, Mexico, Europe and Latin America, a comparison is made of the main criteria and standards with which they evaluate each of the different organisms to engineering programs in order to identify similarities.