MECHATRONICS AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE IN THE PROFESSIONAL FORMATION OF THE MECHANICAL ENGINEER

The fundamental purpose of this investigation was to determine the approaches to insert the discipline academic mechatronic in the mechanical engineer's professional formation, in the school of mechanical engineering of the ability of engineering of the University of the Zulia (LUZ). To reach this objective you development an explanatory study, correlation of practical character, under a design not experimental and traverse. The sample was conformed by thirty (30) educational and thirty (30) egressions in the engineering areas. To gather the information three instruments they were used, which were validated in their content by seven (7) experts and whose dependability settled down through the coefficient alpha of Cronbach, being located in a value of 0.81 for the questionnaire related with the variable mechatronic like academic discipline, 0.85 for the mechanical engineer's questionnaire formation and 0.86 with regard to the mechanical engineer's questionnaire profession. The data were processed using the descriptive statistic, for that which frequency, percentages, measures of central tendency and the standard deviation were calculated. To establish the correlation among the variables you use the coefficient of Pearson. A correlation of 0.816 was determined among variables, being interpreted that the mechanical engineer's professional formation is developed amid big uncertainties and challenges of upgrade in which the discipline academic mechatronic constitutes alone an approach to that that serious a deeper study of the future reality of a profession like the mechanical engineering.