DIAGNOSIS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION OF SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER DEPARTMENT ENGINEERING IN ITSLP

Abstract

In 1979, the Computer Systems Engineering (ISC) degree began at the Technological Institute of San Luis Potosí (ITSLP), belonging to the National Technological Institute of Mexico (TecNM) with a group of 26 students. In 2003 it reached a population of 815 students; since 2004 it has been decreasing, until it reaches the enrollment of 414 in the period August-December 2019. Over the course of four decades, there is a tendency to decrease the enrollment. In relation to the Computer Engineering degree, it started in August 2009, with an enrollment of 37 students, reaching a maximum population of 181, in August 2014 and, like the ISC degree, its tendency is to decrease, showing in August-December 2019, 121 students enrolled; situation that attracts attention and that is the reason why this investigation begins. The study has a qualitative approach, its descriptive scope and a transversal design. Interviews were conducted with teachers from the computer and systems department and content analysis was applied as a method to obtain categories in the responses. As a result, a diagnosis of the situation presented by the ITSLP Computer Systems and Informatics programs was obtained, which is detailed in the results and discussion section.

Keywords

• computer systems engineering
• computer engineering
• tecnm
• professors
• students