The concerning about pedagogical formation of engineering professors shows a legitimate interest for the quality of engineering, but it must not be isolated from the force field generated by the relationships between the professor and the power, society, knowledge and production. Those relationships model, form and deform the practice of teaching and they are responsible in good manner of the results of the teachers´ work. If the effect of the context over the quality of university teaching is ignored or minimized, and the interest is set exclusively on the pedagogical formation of professors, very well-intended initiatives can be promoted and then not be turned into tangible and valuable actions because of the lack of knowledge about power decisions, society priorities, tendencies and evolvement of knowledge, and interests of the production and the market.