Education is inextricably linked to the different stages of the history of mankind. In this sense, today's education is strongly influenced, by the digital age, by the great advance of information and communication technologies, by the global village and the neoliberal economic model. This forces us to assume the challenge that the incorporation of technology imposes on the formative processes in the classroom. The present work has as objective, to determine the use of mobile devices of students of the engineering careers in the Technological of Superior Studies of Jilotepec in the processes of learning and to idendificar those processes that foment their use. The study is based on the application of a survey in which the different engineering careers were considered, number of participating students by gender, age, use of equipment, use of mobile devices to read or study, time of use of mobile to study or consult subjects related to the different subjects as well as the type of networks consulted on the Internet. Finally, it shows the technological trend with the generation 5G and its application in the teaching and learning process in the very near future.