Abstract

The current industry demands from graduate engineers a wide range of characteristics in the area of innovation, which responds to the new and growing needs of the market, which today are migrating towards the development of an automated and virtualized industry. This research identifies the characteristics in the area of innovation that professional engineers should possess to the holder, and therefore, those characteristics they should develop during their training at universities. However, there is little evidence on how to evaluate if these are trained in the university. This research proposes instruments to evaluate the characteristics of innovation in engineering students, providing simple and supported tools to achieve this successfully.