International Society of communication and Development among universities www.europeansp.org Spectrum (Educational Research Service),ISSN:0740-7874 © 2016 The Authors. Published by European Science publishing Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of European Science publishing Ltd. Assesment and academic trajectories in engineers training Ana María Graffigna a , Lucia Mabel Ghilardi b , Guillermina Inés Cortés c * a National University of San Juan, Libertador San Martín 1109 (oeste), San Juan 5400, Argentina b National University of San Juan, Libertador San Martín 1109 (oeste), San Juan 5400, Argentina b National University of San Juan, Libertador San Martín 1109 (oeste), San Juan 5400, Argentina Abstract Assesment is an important part of the curriculum processes that strains the educational system. Assesment practices at university are a problem that is crossed by different factors among it highlights the institutional context and the pedagogical-didactic teachers’ decisions. This work constitutes the progress of an ongoing descriptive and exploratory investigation, which focuses its attention on understanding the impact of the assesment system of learning in the academic careers of engineering students from the National University of San Juan. The conclusions, provisional yet since this is an ongoing investigation, are a valuable input for curriculum design and development at the School of Engineering, as a starting point for strengthening assesment processes, enabling joint practices, economy of efforts and quality assurance assesment at the institutional level. It tries also to be a contribution to making decisions, widely discussed in academic and institutional context, by providing a survey of the experiences around assesment processes, that teachers of the School of Engineering are making through their pedagogical practices in different degree courses. This research will also contribute to improve the quality of training of engineers that develops in the institutional context, as it could affect in increasing student retention rate and shortening the actual duration of the careers, in which assesment regimes have an important role. © 2016 The Authors. Published by European Science publishing Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of European Science publishing Ltd. Keywords: Assesment; curriculum; engineers training 1. Engineering training and assesment Programs of study belonging to technical-professional careers have been the object of various reforms over the last two decades, part of broader reforms carried out by Argentina’s Office of University Policies and implemented through periodic university and career assesment and accreditation processes. This study is part of the Strategic Plan for Engineering Education (PEFI) carried out by the Office of University Policies within Argentina’s Ministry of Education. Its objective is to improve the quantity and quality of engineering human resources and increase the number of engineering graduates over a period of ten years. Its focus, therefore, is to develop a project to improve academic markers, deepen the analysis of university contributions to territorial sustainable development and make the nature of Argentine engineering more international. Assesment initiatives and modifications to programs of study, in terms of conditions for promotion and regularity, fall into the first PEFI project of improving academic markers. This project raises the issue that despite an * Corresponding author.