Built Environment
Tec21 Model: Tec challenges you
Our challenge-based educational model develops the competencies that will enable you to face up to the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century creatively and strategically.
With an education that will accompany you throughout your life, our aim is for you to be aware of the needs of the environment, acquire a systemic vision of problems and develop the capacity to solve them.
Right from the first semester, you will be participating in activities to develop your capacity to identify opportunities, find resources, take risks and recover from failure.
In addition, the model empowers you to make more decisions about your university studies as you progress, in order to develop a unique profile.
¿Qué es un Reto?
Es una oportunidad para aprender algo nuevo y afianzar lo que ya sabes. Para resolverlo requieres esforzarte, investigar e interactuar en el“mundo real”. No lo concretas solo: cuentas con un kit de recursos y herramientas personales y tecnológicas, así como con la asesoría de profesores que te acompañan en el proceso. Su resolución implica un cierto grado de dificultad y una duración que despierta el interés, entusiasma y provoca tu sentido de logro.
What is a challenge?
A challenge is an opportunity to learn something new and reinforce what you already know. To solve it, you need to apply yourself, investigate and interact in the “real world”. You won’t be on your own: you will have a set of personal and technological resources and tools, as well as the advice of faculty who will accompany you throughout the process. Its resolution implies a certain degree of difficulty and a duration that will awaken your interest and enthusiasm and produce a sense of achievement.
What are the characteristics of Tec-educated leaders?
At Tecnológico de Monterrey, we have defined, after consulting leaders from diverse sectors and employers, seven competencies that all our students should possess. Regardless of which degree you are studying, the educational model anticipates that you will develop them through diverse challenges, courses and activities related to your university experience.
They are:
- Self-knowledge and management
- Innovative entrepreneurship
- Social intelligence
- Commitment to ethics and citizenship
- Reasoning for complexity
- Communication
- Digital transformation
These seven competencies, together with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values related to the area of Built Environment and your degree, will be your letter of introduction and your passport in the professional world.
Step-by-step record of your learning
While you are at university, you will keep a record in your competency file of the degree of progress you have made and the supporting evidence. Taking responsibility for creating this file will, from this very moment, be extremely useful when you join the workforce.
Acquire the basic knowledge of your area and face challenges to reinforce this knowledge.
Develop the competencies relevant to your degree through more focused courses and challenges.
Give a personal touch to your degree program through specialization within or outside your discipline.
Built Environment
May our dreams inhabit us
At present, over half the population lives in cities and by 2050 this figure will have reached 70 %.
As global urbanization continues to grow, the challenges of orderly, sustainable and inclusive urban development grow day by day. Cities drive the economies, regional development, innovation, job creation and, consequently, social wellbeing of the leading countries. Therefore, it is crucial for cities to enhance their inhabitants’ quality of life by respecting the environment, while fomenting sustainable economic development.
As part of the area of Built Environment, students will not only understand the factors that determine the development of cities in their diverse scales, but also be capable of analytically and systemically tackling the urban challenges of the future, through multidisciplinary collaboration with other areas of knowledge.
This is how you learn through Tec Weeks
Tec Weeks, an intensive pause for your comprehensive growth
Every semester will be interspersed with Tec Weeks, specifically aimed at purposefully developing your competencies for life, such as social intelligence, commitment to ethics and citizenship, communication and entrepreneurship, among others. The better you know yourself, the more you will grow.
Acquire the basic knowledge of your area and face challenges to reinforce this knowledge.
Exploration
Concentrations
Internships
International experiences
Courses or blocks
General education course
Area exploration courses
Introductory block (CHALLENGE)
Area exploration block (CHALLENGE)
Exploration topic (CHALLENGE)
Track integrating block (CHALLENGE)
Disciplinary course
Disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
Integrating disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
TEC Semester
Multidisciplinary professional elective (CHALLENGE)
Final integrating block (CHALLENGE)