Technical education in Latin America has with stood intense transformations as a product of changing economic and educational policies. Fortunately, technical education schools are still present and retain their potential in most of our countries.Those of us, who travel from students? roles to teachers? roles in educational technical institutions, are committed to improving and adapting technical education to the new global challenges, which determine the technological characteristics of industry and work.This challenge requires focusing on design, entrepreneurship and technological innovation as essential keys for local industrial development, understood as an objective that must organize the productive actions of a society, fostering companies and industries and ensuring an adequate level of welfare for its population.