Plenary: The Challenge of Innovating in the Education of Engineers in Argentina

New technological, pedagogical, normative and social paradigms and scenarios at a local and global level appeal to education in general and engineering in particular. These new paradigms and dynamic scenarios need institutions of higher education with management of innovation and change to educate better engineers as society demands. In recent years, CONFEDI has been working on situation diagnosis, analysis of indicators and relevant aspects of changes, agreements for paradigm shift from political and conceptual point of views, design of a formal framework of quality assurance (Red Book of 2nd. Generation Standards for Engineering Degrees), strengthening of institutional capabilities for the paradigm shift, among other aspects. This presentation reviews and relates all these aspects in order to define a scenario and a series of challenges that the Schools of Engineering of Argentina had to master to make the paradigm shift (inherently complex) and is an opportunity for innovation.