A Comprehensive Quality Academic Project for a Bachelor's Degree with Accredited Program and Certified Laboratories. The Case of the Degree of Civil Engineering in the FES Aragón UNAM

Abstract

In the Decade of the 1990s, a significant decrease occurred in the number of students entering institutions of higher education in Mexico, to study the degree of Civil Engineer. The decrease in enrollment at the school of higher studies Aragon of the UNAM was dramatic, insomuch the principal of the school according to the administrative chief considered, in 2002, the closure of one of the shifts.One of the main reasons of this decrease was the economic crisis in Mexico in 1994, starting which a considerably decreased in the infrastructure investment, as well as the strike at the UNAM, in 1999, that kept the institution paralyzed for nearly a year.This work mentions the actions that we carried out for the improvement of the curriculum, which led to accreditation and certification of its Labs. It also mentions the strategies followed by the academic and administrative staff which enabled substantial improvements and the achievement of favorable evaluations. It also talk about the main benefits for the students of the career, which impacted on the increased of enrollment.