Changes experienced in recent times focus their attention on new and multiple challenges that must be assumed by the English teacher, in the engineering context, which becomes a challenge against the demands by the current world from the English teacher in Colombia. This situation needs to be analyzed and studied. This article addresses the challenges of teaching English in the engineering context in Colombia, in order to glimpse actions in terms of perspectives, reflecting on how these aspects promote this new teacher, in the new century in which we are living.