The Software Development Technician is responsible for meeting the academic demand of society in software development, graduating professionals who have the skills required by the Software Industry in Mexico.

Knowledge

• Classes are given in Spanish.
• Handling of computer equipment.
• Basic use of computer platforms.
• Handling of communication tools.
• Handling of office software.
• Handling of files.
• Handling of web browsers.
• Scientific research methodologies.
• Mathematical modeling for problem solving.
• Oral and written expression.
• Basic comprehension of texts in English.
• Mathematical logic.
• Deductive logic.

Skills​

• Time organization for the realization of the activities.
• Organization of information.
• Resolution of mathematical problems.
• Information analysis.
• Decision-making.
• Application of knowledge in different contexts.

Attitudes

• Taste for computer work and Internet browsing.
• Willingness to spend four hours a day on self-study.
• Assertiveness and innovation.
• Willingness to work in a team.
• Taste for professional challenges.
• Commitment to independent learning
• Discipline.
• Professional ethics.
• Tolerance to work under pressure.

The student at the end of the Software Development Technician career will be able to carry out project planning tasks, requirements analysis, software modeling, creation of interfaces, software graphics, programming of local, web, and distributed software applications, software testing, and software implementation and maintenance, which contributes to the solution of problems according to social and economic needs, promoting progress and changes in science and technology with an ethical and creative approach.

Generic Competences

• Learns through initiative and self-interest throughout life.
• Participates and collaborates effectively in diverse teams.
• Participates with a civic and ethical conscience in the life of their community/region in Mexico and the world.
• Maintains a respectful attitude towards interculturalism and diversity of beliefs, values, ideas, and social practices.
• Contributes to sustainable development critically with responsible actions.

Disciplinary Competences

• Constructs and interprets mathematical models through the application of arithmetic, algebraic, geometric, and variational procedures for the understanding and analysis of real, hypothetical, or formal situations.
• Formulates and solves mathematical problems, applying different approaches.
• Explain and interpret the results obtained through mathematical procedures and contrast them with established models or real situations.
• Argue the solution obtained from a problem, with numerical, graphic, analytical, or variational methods, through verbal and mathematical language and the use of information and communication technologies.
• Analyzes the relationships between two or more variables of a social or natural process to determine or estimate their behavior.
• Quantifies represents, and contrasts experimentally or mathematically the magnitudes of space and the physical properties of surrounding objects.
• Chooses a deterministic or a random approach to the study of a process or phenomenon, and argues its relevance.
• Interpret tables, graphs, maps, diagrams, and texts with mathematical and scientific symbols.

Professional Competences

• Determine detailed customer requirements.
• Analyze information systems.
• Model the data, processes, and events of the requirements.
• Design graphical user interfaces for information systems.
• Select optimal software and platforms for the information system.
• Develop local, web, and distributed information systems with quality.
• Apply standards, methodologies, techniques, and paradigms in the development of information systems.
• Develop test plans for the information system.
• Design strategic plans for negotiation in the software industry.
• Maintenance and support of information systems.
• Performing work activities efficiently and safely.
• Empathy for teamwork.
• Interest in the incorporation of technological changes in their work environment.
• Leadership in the development of software applications.
• Professional ethics for the work and organizational environment in software development.

To enroll in the Middle Highschool with Technical Studies, Non-School and Mixed modalities, the requirements established in the call of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional must be complied with. Once the results are published, the applicant must complete the enrollment process as mentioned in the call.

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