Epistemological currents and the construction of university knowledge in Engineering

Abstract

In this review, overview is made of the main currents of knowledge that have influenced university education, and it is about answering two questions: what is the contribution of the different epistemological currents to build knowledge in the current social reality? What does the history of the main philosophical currents teach us in the teachings of engineering? When answering the questions, it is concluded that, by making knowledge within engineering, we coexist within several paradigms, on the one hand, we do research applying the traditional scientific method, but we can also identify with the Critical Theory vision of generating knowledge Committed to social changes. And in a particular way in Nicaragua we have to move from a domestic banking education to an education that incorporates research to help free us from the centers of power, which from engineering means building or adapting technologies, while respecting our cultural and environmental surrounding, allow us to get out of underdevelopment.