Publicación:

Formulación de indicadores para la medición de los productos de los grupos de investigación de ingeniería para ser aplicados en la plataforma Sinfoni de La Universidad Cooperativa De Colombia

Resumen

The national strategic plan (PEN) “Navegando Juntos” 2013 - 2022 contemplates research within its strategic axes. Similarly, two strategic objectives mentioned there are: “to consolidate research in all the fields of knowledge existing in the university, to that articulated to teaching and social projection constitutes a substantial part of the academic culture. ” and “to carry out pertinent research that generates national impacts”, however, in order to achieve these objectives, the University has research professors who in turn make up groups classified in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation thanks to scientific and academic production However, it is pertinent to establish whether production is really aligned with the research objectives of the PEN 2013 - 2022. The above, verifying if the research projects point to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the plans for departmental development and thus demonstrating that in effect such production by research professors and groups goes hand in hand with the regional needs embodied in the plans. Consequently, to demonstrate this alignment, the research professors of the Cooperative University of Colombia with an interest in the engineering area (project approach) were started, in addition, the departmental development plans in which the University has a presence were reviewed. In order to recognize the actions related to the lines of engineering research and therefore the engineering research groups could target, likewise, the contribution of the engineering research groups to the regions was identified in coherence with the sustainable development objectives, departmental development plans and lines of research based on projects registered on the GrupLAC and SINFONI platform, and finally, meetings were held with the personnel in charge of the SINFONI information system to learn how this system works, which information it collects, which indicators it manages to measure the impact of research in communities, regions where the University has a presence. In the process of project development, it is confirmed that there are no research projects that promptly contribute to regional development plans (departmental and / or municipal), but if they point to the objectives of sustainable development, added to this, the development of multicampus projects although it is not very significant (from the consolidated information) and finally, the information collected from the SINFONI information system allowed us to propose indicators that tend to measure the impact of the research groups towards the fulfillment of the strategic research objectives defined in the PEN 2013 - 2022.