The following work treats the strength of the investigation process in university programs by propaedeutic cycles, framed in an experience of a project restored in the first cycle of formation in Mechanical Technology in the solar energy area and complemented by a second project of degree in the cycle of deepening in Mechanical Engineering, in the Curricular Project of Mechanics of the Technological Faculty of the Distrital University Francisco Jose de Caldas in the city of Bogota, Colombia. The experience demonstrates a qualitative way to start an investigation process from the first semesters framed in the works of degree of students, and offers one better participation and one better appropriation of the concept and greater relevance in the processes of the surroundings oriented to obtain good work and a first step in the investigation related to solar energy systems. The constructivism is used as a pedagogical model within this work, allowing that the student advances an effective process of construction of knowledge showing the advances until the first semester of 2011.