Epistemological perspectives of Agricultural Engineering

Abstract

In Latin America, agricultural engineers graduate and most of them are linked to productive areas, which are located in rural territories, and are usually the areas most vulnerable to social injustice, inequity and greater rooting of prejudices that are defended in Name of cultures. These situations of the profession and of society, together with the great problems of the agricultural world, where a new rurality emerges, demand a different professional formation, where the contemporary problems appear with academic foundation and also the devices of the knowledge, That are sufficient to integrate the professional work, as well as the general and specific competences of the career in the formation of a human being enriched in its values and with a high degree of professionalism.