Community service as a strategy for strengthening the values of the future engineer

Abstract

Training in values ​​constitutes a fundamental aspect of university education, because they represent a guide for the being and work of students, during their interaction with the environment, thus allowing the interrelationship between university and society to be fostered. Hence, the same students from the last academic periods must comply with Community Service, where they apply the knowledge acquired during their academic training, applying the service-learning methodology for the construction of a project that responds to the community situation or need. . In attention, the general objective is to analyze community service as a strategy to strengthen the values ​​in future production engineers, belonging to the Deanery of Sciences and Technology of the Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado, using documentary review to then carry out a critical analysis. of the exposed theme. It is concluded that community service constitutes a strategy that allows the strengthening of values ​​in students, among which there is cooperation, solidarity, honesty, commitment, indignation, responsibility, justice, promoting the ethics of involvement, which will allow improve your performance in the work and personal field, forming a person who is empathetic to society's problems.