This paper presents part of the research results: "The development of resilient competencies through protective factors and risk in engineering students". Resilience is considered as a process, a becoming human that inscribes its development in an environment and writes its story in a culture (Jaramillo, 2004: 231). So Vanistendael (2006) identifies resilience as the competence to facing problems and to emerge stronger. The methodology used in the study was of mixed cut, significant results were rescued to find elements such as: Recognition, sense of life and positive interaction that impact on the comprehensive educational training of engineering student facing continuous changes caused by globalization. [For the complete Volume 12 proceedings, see ED597979.]