Virtual Industrial Engineering Program

The Industrial Engineer is a professional with a strong scientific, disciplinary, ethical, and research foundation, committed to solving real-world industrial problems across all areas of production processes.

General Information

Applicant Profile

Applicants for the Industrial Engineering program must, in addition to meeting the requirements established in institutional regulations, be sensitive individuals with a disposition for teamwork and self-learning, possessing basic competencies in mathematics, literacy, communication, and basic ICT management, which will allow them to acquire the competencies specific to the professional level and their specific discipline.

Occupational Profile

The Industrial Engineer is capable of:

○ Leading work teams for activities related to corporate projects.

○ Improving internal organizational security by applying knowledge of quality, ergonomics, and industrial safety.

○ Making timely decisions in response to organizational needs, applying modern engineering technologies, techniques, and tools.

○ Improving organizational production processes by applying knowledge directed at cleaner production aspects, as well as applications in materials, components, and their functionalities.

○ Understanding real client problems and needs to respond to their requirements.

○ Modeling production processes to simulate complex corporate realities in value chain environments.

○ Developing ergonomic designs for workstations, considering Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) management systems.

Why study with us?

○ The Industrial Engineering program trains professionals who apply knowledge in productivity, quality, sustainable development, and clean production in organizations, leveraging the economic and social development of the country, as well as the high labor demand for this profession.

○ The Industrial Engineering program develops capabilities supported by interactive experiences, virtual laboratories, and industrial process simulators, ensuring the training of its students and improving the productivity and quality of processes in any type of organization.

○ Our graduates are capable of applying improvement processes using agile methodologies and taking company results to high levels of competitiveness.

○ Another benefit of being a graduate is the opportunity to obtain a double degree with programs belonging to the Faculty of Engineering.

Program Objective

○ To contribute to business management with a view to improving productivity and competitiveness to provide solutions to the needs of the business sector.

○ To develop professional and disciplinary competencies that strengthen the formation of critical, open, and reflective thinking, hand in hand with research processes.

○ To provide training spaces for professional practice tools.

○ To introduce quality procedures in both production processes and the supply chain, evaluating metrics and indicators that improve efficiency in project times and costs.

Curriculum

Semester 1