The aim of this research was to propose a novel methodological guide for incorporating of academic competences to the curriculum of the higher education institutions through Régnier's Abacus technique.SoftProsp Software was employed to use the technique.It was taken as a particular case, the curriculum of Systems Engineering of the University of Cartagena and the domain of Software Defined Networking (SDN) as competence.The obtained results allowed to analyse the curriculum of the Systems Engineering program of the University of Cartagena and determinate the competencies that must be integrated to complement the professional profile of the graduate.Application of the technique that allows to link up new competences to curriculum that are needed by professionals of university academic programs.Keyword -Curriculum,