El presente proyecto se desarrolló con el propósito evaluar el impacto laboral del programa académico tecnología en procesos industriales de la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, tomando como base el análisis de la percepción académica impartida en la formación profesional. Se aplicaron instrumentos de recolección de información hacia las empresas del sector productivo de la región que mantienen vínculo con el programa académico a través de diversas modalidades de extensión, permitiendo contrastar las necesidades y expectativas demandadas por las organizaciones a nivel de competencias técnicas e integrales en su recurso humano con las habilidades demostradas por los graduados del programa académico.  Se determinó que la inserción laboral en los graduados de programa se ve afectada por la preferencia que tienen éstos de continuar su formación en el ciclo profesional de Ingeniería. Así mismo se pudo establecer que gran parte de las Organizaciones del sector productivo de la región identifican a los graduados del programa de Tecnología en Procesos Industriales por su buen desempeño laboral medido desde la existencia de habilidades transversales. Finalmente se estableció un plan de acción que describe oportunidades de mejora en los procesos de docencia, a fin de mejorar continuamente la armonía entre las competencias de los nuevos graduados y las necesidades de la sociedad en el ámbito regional

Bismuth and titanium are elements with remarkable properties and applications in technological developments and in the field of biomedical engineering. The sol-gel method was used to form a bismuth-titanium system, which allowed to establish if it was possible to obtain films with anticorrosive properties on 316L stainless steel. The anticorrosive response was evaluated by means of Tafel curves, defining the parameters to obtain thin and functional films with good tribological properties. The coatings were obtained by the spin coating technique, varying the spin speeds from 3000 rpm to 5000 rpm with monolayer and bilayer systems. More positive values of corrosion potential were obtained when the steel is coated by the films, which implies a lower propensity to corrosion in saline medium, lower corrosion rates and higher potentials are reported for films with higher titanium content, likewise, better efficiency of the films with respect to the uncoated substrate is presented, the higher the titanium content and a strong influence between the calculated efficiencies and the centrifugation speeds is not observed.

The 316 L steel is a type of stainless steel widely used in the medical industry, which in recent years has been studied for different uses in society. Being an engineering material, it is imperative to know its performance based on its physical and mechanical properties that allow identifying the response of this steel in addition to thin films as coatings. Bismuth and titanium have been recently used to improve the properties of 316 L steel, so they were used in this study. The sol-gel technique was used as the film forming method. The response of physical and mechanical properties was evaluated from the analysis of microhardness and coefficient of friction reported for the different types of steel-coating systems. Higher microhardness values were found for films with higher proportion of titanium. The coefficient of friction values is influenced by the system used, with higher values obtained for samples with a single coating layer.