When the research is taught without any articulation between the academic world and the research, it does not have outstanding results, one of the big problems is the way to develop the research capacities in the engineering students. In the University of Sciences and Humanities, they implemented a formative research system to strengthen these capacities through three programs. The first program involves students from the 1st to the 3rd cycle where research habits are developed. Program II involves the 4th to the 7th cycle where scientific thinking is developed in the selected courses of the specialty. Finally, program III from 8 to 10 of the cycle in which contact is made and the visibility of the research through the final development of the research work and its publication in various congresses and academic events. The strengthening of the research capacities of the students was achieved from having 0 publications in 2016 to 11 publications at present, as well as the articulation of formative research with productive or formal research.