Plausibility of Competency-Based Education in Aeronautical Engineering in Mexico

Abstract

Modern education demands the development of generic and specific competencies and certain skills of their enrollment so that upon graduating from a professional career they can join the productive sector in an expeditious manner and oriented to the requirements of the industry; However, when delving into the educational models based on competencies of the educational organizations that offer aeronautical engineering in Mexico, it is appreciated that the teachers who teach subjects mostly come from other higher-level specialties, in addition to leaving aside labor and expertise of its teaching staff, particularly in applied sciences that should be ad hoc to the aeronautical engineer. It is through the methods of quantitative and qualitative scientific research that it is possible to expose the restriction that teachers maintain in the praxis of the profession through the data obtained fromuniversities in Mexico offering aeronautical engineering at its higher level and make clear the incongruity of a competency-based education by detecting 60% of teachers under analysis without due work experience within the civil aviation, aeronautics, or aerospace industry. Additionally, the professional profile of these stands out as an area of opportunity for the acquisition of special postgraduate courses in aeronautics and / or those that allow acquiring theories, fundamentals and areas of specialization of teaching to improve teaching and be able to show and demonstrate with solid foundations in their subjects, given that only and exclusively 12.59% of these teachers have completed postgraduate programs in aeronautics and aviation, having the greatest crisis in the educational part in which simply 2.96% of teachers are trained, therefore the proposal for educational organizations to establish strategies and appropriate mechanisms among the various actors of the educational system to address this problem and walk towards the development of labor and training competence of teachers of aeronautical engineering in Mexico and achieve a true quality education under the model of competences.