Salamanca, Gto., June 3, 2017.- The program of Mechanical Engineering taught at Campus Irapuato-Salamanca of the University of Guanajuato (UG), seeks to reaffirm its quality accreditation before the Interinstitutional Committees for the Evaluation of Higher Education, A.C. (CIEES).

With this objective, the Division of Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering received the committee of academic pairs who will evaluate the program, coordinated by Dr. Moisés Hinojosa Rivera, of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

Also, as evaluating pairs, M. Guadalupe Juárez Romero of the Universidad Tecnológica de Huejotzingo, Puebla and M. Martha Edith Morales Martínez, of the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa.

The evaluating pairs considered that is a strength of the Division of Engineering, the development of the automotive sector in the state of Guanajuato, as well as the existent agreements with important industries of the region that allow the student to make stays and practices to complement their formation.

CIEES representatives interviewed full-time professors and the student community, they also inspected classrooms, workshops and laboratories of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, led by Dr. Elías Rigoberto Ledesma Orozco.

Given that CIEESs contribute to improve the quality of the higher public and private education in the country, the observations and recommendations issued to the evaluated programs, give elements to the institutions to improve the service they provide to the students.

In this mood, the visitors interviewed the workers responsible for providing attention to the students related with student development, libraries, school control, liaison, continuous education, culture, graduate follow up, sports and others, to know the processes of each service.

The Mechanical Engineering program has been taught for 35 years in the University of Guanajuato, held in the city of Salamanca, the first institution to have a postgraduate in Mechanics in the region, its major and postgraduate degrees becoming in the most consolidated programs of the Division of Engineering.