Academic Success in the First Year of the Industrial Engineering Course and its Link with Previous Academic Factors

A significant number of students enter the Industrial Engineering Faculty of the Universidad Tecnologica de La Habana, from which a volume of data is available and can be analyzed to contribute to the management of the educational process in an intentional way. In this study, descriptive statistical techniques are used to extract useful and relevant information from the educational data that are recorded as inputs or results of the process of training professionals. The objective of this work is to analyze the information obtained from students in the first academic year of the career, enrolled in academic courses between 2012 and 2017, in order to improve their academic performance. It shows the analysis of a set of data to study possible correlations between influencing factors, which allows us to appreciate a decrease in promotion and academic efficiency. For the processing of the educational data, statistical techniques and computer packages were used. The results obtained indicate the relevance of first-year student admission levels for academic success.