The purpose of this article was to determine the incidence between learning strategies and academic goals in the competences of the curricular experience of electronics and digital circuits in engineering students of a private university in Lima, Peru. The objective was to explain how learning strategies and academic goals explain the behavior of engineering students of competencies in electronics and digital circuits. For this study, a sample of 89 students from the III cycle was used, to whom the ACRA test instruments were applied for the learning strategies of Román and Gallego (2001), the CMA academic goals test of Durán and Arias (2015) and a test to assess skills in electronics and digital circuits. According to the results obtained, it was shown that learning strategies and academic goals affect the skills of electronics and digital circuits in engineering students. By obtaining x2 = 83.782, (p = .000 <0.05 and Wald = 16.326 showing that the proposed model is acceptable.