Conceptual Mapping of the use of Non-Traditional Processes in Engineering's Higher Education

In this paper, we shall present a study on the tools most often used as a support in the teaching of engineering in higher education. We seek to assess which are the current practices and identify the main tools used in the teaching of electric and computer engineering, highlighting the curricular units in which they are being used. We seek to contribute towards the improvement of the results obtained in higher education curricula in engineering. The methodology used is based on a literature review together with the systematization and presentation of the findings through a conceptual mapping. The results present a conceptual mapping of the courses in which positive experiences were reported through the adoption of non-traditional teaching processes. We concluded that both the initiatives that have resorted to new technologies in engineering degrees, as well as reports of similar experiments in international publications on this topic are both reduced and ad hoc. Initiatives such as this may contribute towards an improvement of the implemented teaching processes in engineering.