Abstract. This research constitutes a formative work that enhances the research line of automation and control to implement a program for the development of engineering thinking of students of the Systems and Software Engineering at UNIANDES, Quevedo. The research contributed to form a source of knowledge for Systems students of all levels from a productive approach, following basic principles of didactic engineering and multiple intelligences. It brings the student closer to learning by discovery while applying knowledge of their own competencies specific to their student profile; it also increased their analytical capacity developing automation products from UNIANDES. The procedure fostered interdisciplinary work, and other values in the axiological context that underpin the integral training of future professionals, on the definition of key success factors. We decided to use the neutrosophic TOPSIS technique since the uncertainty and imprecision of the multicriteria decision are incorporated, in the form of three membership functions: truthfulness, indeterminacy and falsehood.