Program Overview
The Master's in Industrial Engineering program provides specialized training in industrial engineering concepts and methodologies. It offers specializations in various areas, preparing graduates for roles in organizational consultancy, logistics systems design, quality management, and technological innovation. The program emphasizes research and development of scientific knowledge and business organization, targeting graduates in engineering, exact sciences, and economic-administrative backgrounds.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering is described as a reference program focused on research and development of scientific knowledge and business organization. It aims to generate skills and sustainable solutions for the industrial field. Upon successful completion, students will be qualified to:
- Understand the integral stages of industrial productive activity.
- Analyze complex problems or opportunities in organizations using rigorous methodology and updated knowledge, developing structured and systemic thinking.
- Design logistics systems meeting customer service level requirements.
- Design quality management systems based on quality models and international certifications.
- Manage the full life cycle of industrial activity, from initial idea to final execution, management, and control, including authorizations and licenses.
- Develop leadership roles to become agents of change. The program offers specializations in:
- Industrial Process Automation
- Agro-industry
- Environment and Sustainability
- Industrial Organization and Management
- Research and Development The program targets graduates in engineering and exact sciences, and graduates in economic-administrative areas. Those from economic-administrative backgrounds may require additional personalized training in fundamental knowledge. Successful completion awards a Master in Industrial Engineering degree from the enrolled university. Specific objectives include promoting theoretical and practical learning in industrial activities, promoting scientific research for sustainable solutions to industrial problems, and training professionals for management positions in industrial organizations.
Outline:
The Master in Industrial Engineering program has a credit structure of 90 credits, divided into four parts:
1st Part: Basic Subjects (Compulsory) – 36 Credits
- Operations Management and Administration (6 credits): Covers activities in operations and logistics management, from strategic long-term decisions (product and process design) to tactical short-to-medium-term decisions (operational planning and logistics). Topics include design of production systems, synchronized production systems, supply chain management, logistics planning, purchasing, and supply. Topics include introduction to the process industry, process engineering, charts and symbols of common equipment, chart analysis, and analysis of industry process types.
- Quality Management: ISO 9001 and Auditing (6 credits): Covers quality management systems based on ISO 9001 or business excellence models. Topics include quality management systems, the ISO 9001 standard, and quality auditing.
- Occupational Risk Prevention: OHSAS 18001 (6 credits): Focuses on identifying business requirements in prevention and applying techniques for occupational risk control. Topics include working and health conditions, accidents and safety at work, prevention techniques, and occupational risk prevention management.
- Environmental Management: ISO 14001 (6 credits): Describes Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and their implementation. Topics include business and environment, environmental protection measures, company EMS, the ISO 14001 standard, and case studies.
- Integrated Management Systems: Quality, Environment and Prevention (6 credits): Covers the basics of integrating quality, environment, and occupational risk prevention management systems, analyzing elements and activities of integrated management. Topics include the integration process, implementation stages, and involved elements and agents.
2nd Part: Core Subjects (Compulsory) – 41 Credits
- Integration of Business Management Systems (6 credits): Focuses on integrating organizations through systems that add value to information. Topics include corporate and technological integration, business planning (ERP), human resources management in the digital era, supplier relations systems (SCM), and customer relationship management (CRM).
- Project Planning and Management (6 credits): Covers resource distribution over time for project implementation and stable work planning. Topics include planning and diagnosis processes, criteria for developing objectives, cost and resource estimation, and project definition, planning, and development.
- Project Evaluation (6 credits): Develops concepts and skills for project evaluation. Topics include an integral vision on project evaluation, cash flow, profitability indicators, risk and uncertainty, and social project and public investment evaluation.
- Management Techniques and Organizational Leadership (6 credits): Explores leadership and administration styles, their relationship, and necessary skills and abilities. Topics include the importance of organizational leadership, theoretical approaches, leadership styles, and skills and abilities of leaders and executives.
- Strategic Management of Human Resources (6 credits): Designs a conceptual and methodological framework for strategic human resources management (HRM). Topics include strategy and management of human resources, human talent, HRM technology, and template optimization.
- Resolution/Transformation of Conflicts in the Organizational Field (6 credits): Analyzes conflict and negotiation in organizations, especially labor relations. Topics include conflict theories, psychosocial aspects of conflict, conflict resolution strategies, and negotiation techniques.
- Research Seminar I (5 credits)
3rd Part: Specialty Subjects (Elective) – 35 Credits
Students choose one specialization itinerary. Each itinerary includes 35 credits.
- Industrial Processes Automation: Integration of Mechatronic Systems, Robotic Systems, Automation and Control, Production Management, Logistics, Research Seminar II.
- Agro-industry: Agro-industrial Systems, Facilities Planning and Distribution, Production Engineering in the Agro-Food Industry, Technology of Agro-Food Industries, Logistics, Research Seminar II.
- Environment and Sustainability: Facilities Planning and Distribution, Waste recovery and treatment engineering, Treatment of industrial wastewater, Treatment of gaseous effluents, Energy recovery, Research Seminar II.
- Industrial Organization and Management: Production Management, Business Organization, Coaching, Logistics, Facilities Planning and Distribution, Research Seminar II.
- R+D: Production Management, Innovation Projects, Innovation Management, Facilities Planning and Distribution, Technological research and development, Research Seminar II.
4th Part: Master’s Degree Final Project (Compulsory) – 10 Credits
This involves developing an applied project with novelty in the field of study, guided by academic staff and a project director. The procedure is detailed in the Final Project Rules accessible from the Virtual Campus.
Teaching:
The teaching methodology integrates knowledge and skills acquisition through integrative exercises and project practices. The program duration varies between 12 and 24 months depending on student dedication. The program lists a number of faculty members with their credentials and affiliations. The faculty includes PhD holders in various engineering and related fields.
Careers:
Career opportunities include:
- Management of organizational consultancy projects (international perspective)
- Design and implementation of logistics systems
- Automation of industrial processes
- Design and management of agro-industrial systems
- Operations administration
- Design and implementation of quality management systems
- Project management of technological innovation and knowledge
Other:
FUNIBER periodically allocates funds for FUNIBER Training Scholarships. The Evaluation Committee determines scholarship eligibility.
