Impacto de la Capacitación del Programa de Formación de Académicos en la Facultad de Mecánica y Eléctrica de la Universidad Veracruzana, Zona Poza Rica Tuxpan

The Universidad Veracruzana, through its academic training program (PROFA), provides training courses and / or disciplinary and pedagogical updates to academic staff at the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the Poza Rica-Tuxpan area, which counts with 38 teachers, to whom, every semester period, they are offered and implemented training courses. This article aims to demonstrate how relevant and sufficient these courses have been, from the academic perspective. To do this, quantitative field research was carried out through surveys applied to 20 teachers equivalent to 52.6% of the population. Of this sample, 50% think teachers training is more focused on pedagogical than disciplinary courses. 65% of the teachers surveyed mention that the training has met their expectations and the 95% that has had a positive impact on their teaching practice. It is concluded that the areas to be reinforced are the management of software and TIC, sustainable development, administrative scope and disciplinary area, which defines a precise panorama on the next courses to be offered.