Physical contribution to the development of research skills in engineering students

Scientific research is essential to improve the quality of future specialists, due to the high rate of development of science and technology which professionals have to respond creatively to the problems of greatest relevance and importance. Developing scientific thinking is one of the purposes of Higher Education and it is responsibility of all the disciplines that compose a career. Among the main functions of a university professor is their ability to use the results of the research to form the student. The scientific research should be an academic requirement since the early years of career, as part of integral formation of students. This work shows the achieved results of the Physical discipline in the development of student scientific work with students of the Biomedical Engineering career at the Instituto Superior Politecnico Jose Antonio Echeverria, significantly increasing the number of students participating in scientific research and their motivation for this, the activity of independent and creative work and making the link between knowledge and practice as well as the integration with other disciplines of the career.