El Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas como estrategia de seguimiento de las competencias del perfil de egreso. Una experiencia en Ingeniería Civil en la Universidad de Valparaíso.

Designing and developing training processes that start from the analysis of contextualized problems is the purpose of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), an interesting methodology in Engineering careers to achieve meaningful learning. The general purpose of this article was to present the implementation of the PBL in the Resist ance of Materials subject in the Civil Engineering degree at the University of Valparaíso, in three different years. This was a strategy to evaluate and provide feedback on learning results regarding specific and generic competences, in their first level of mastery. The results revealed that this methodology had strengths and weaknesses regarding the level of achievement in team work-related transversal competences, self-regulation, and communication. Also, there was a rise in engineering competencies such as the application of tools for the analysis of a problem. The perception of the students regarding learning gains was also analysed and contrasted with their academic results. This provided feedback on students' performance which the permanent curricular committee of the degree can use to make decisions and carry out macro or micro curricular adjustments. In general, improvements were reported for the formation of work teams, thus optimizing academic performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]