Context: The undergraduate work has become a sig­nificant indicator of the professional competences acquired by students from higher-level academic programs.Objetives: The main objective of this study is to cha­racterize and analyze the professional profiles with which such a work is developed in two undergra­duate programs of the District University Francisco Jose de Caldas, of Bogota.Method: Through a methodology that includes tools of descriptive statistics, and group discussions, we studied the undergraduate works carried out for 17 years in two academic programs. These programs are integrated under a model of training by propae­deutic cycles in the district university.Results: We used a historical review of these under­graduate works to collect a set of lessons learned from the accumulated experience and to suggest an organizational model aimed at maximizing the results achieved and contributing to the fulfill­ment of the missionary research function of the aca­demic programs under study.Conclusions: Both self-knowledge and the construc­tion of organizational memory must be a permanent process of learning organizations. In this case, the study of undergraduate works carried out over 17 years became an organizational diagnostic tool that allowed the collecting of improvement strategies to enrich the declared curricular purposes.Financing: The District University Francisco Jose de Caldas funded this study.