La duración de los estudios de ingeniería en la adecuación del sistema universitario español al Espacio Europeo de Enseñanza Superior

Resumen

One of the aspects which is being debated in the adjustment of the engineering studies to the Bologna Process is their duration. The european framework in which the adjustment must be carried out, we must found defined in declarations of Sorbonne (1.998) and Bologna (1.999), and the communiqués of Prague meeting (2.001) and Berlin Conference (2.003). From the spanish universities and professional organizations, diverses variants for the duration of the studies have been proposed, that we could summarize like models 3+2, 4+1, 4+2 and 5+0, where the first digit represents, within the education process, the number of courses of the first level or grade, and the second one corresponds with the courses of the second level or post-grade, consisting each course of 60 European credits (ECTS). In addition, from the ANECA, it has been impelled and financed the elaboration of white books for some of the engineering degrees, whose conclusions, we could frame them in some of the mentioned models. Each one of them - whose analysis is the object of the present work -, presenting advantages and disadvantages, we could say that are been adapted to the established general principles for the creation of the European Higher Education Area. But the existence of dogmatic positions defending only one model for all, forgetting the wealth that provides the diversity of cultures and systems of education at european peoples and states, and the universally accepted principles of university autonomy, it is vitiating the debate that can be solved forming flexible systems of education based on the looked for objectives and establishing a total and not-corresponding separation between the present model of engineering and the model which will be defined to give answer to the future necessities.