SNAP circuits program promoted by Santo Tomás university and the faculty of electronic engineering

Abstract

This paper describes how the electronic engineering Faculty carries out the social activities programs, related to teaching and learning process. One of them is the program Snap Circuits, due to easily way to build circuits. The paper presents a new approach of learning process, mixing practices with Snap Circuits kits and written guides for promoting STEM knowledge. For the Faculty is important that other disciplines of engineering know the way of increasing educative strengths when it is associated secondary education with the graduate education, in the same way, how the global education must be focused to give real solutions towards social issues. Such as described by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE in its program Engineers Demonstrating Science, an Engineer Teacher Connection or EDS-ETC, (Guarín, 2014), in the world year to year there are less students who choose engineering as a professional career, therefore, it is needed to find the strategies to engage students of secondary school with the study of engineering, they should know an easy and practical way of how to learn the engineering concepts.