Evaluation of the teaching of physics areas in university engineering programs

Relevance studies provide a vision of the impact and degree to which an academic offer responds to the needs of an environment. In this research it was possible to analyze the context of the existing technological level programs with respect to the offer of physics branches linked in their curricula, in order to determine the correlation between these areas and the contribution they represent in the development of competences and skills for the exercise of the profession of Technologists in areas of Engineering knowledge. A descriptive methodological approach was used, through the application of instruments and tools that allowed synthesizing the findings in relation to the formulated study hypothesis. It was concluded that the fields of physics at the technological level allowed establishing the bases to articulate the knowledge towards the disciplinary study in each of the programs studied; likewise, it was evidenced that the behavior of the proportion of physics courses within the curricular structures are corresponding among the programs under study; and finally, it was demonstrated that the areas of physics are mostly addressed in the programs whose specific field demands the application of electronic, mechanical, electromechanical, manufacturing, instrumentation, automation and control systems.