Industrial Engineering

Academic Areas

With the aim of providing a well-rounded education in the engineering field and preparing its students for the challenges required by organizations, the Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Program is organized into six academic areas as specified below.

Technological Design and Innovation Area

The subjects of this area enable Industrial Engineering students to build solid competencies in the design and development of technological, automated and industrial processes in general, and to acquire skills in the use of tools such as digital fabrication and artificial intelligence.

CODE SUBJECT
1459       CALCULUS II 
5641     CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION WORKSHOP 
5642      ENGINEERING DRAWING 
1472  PHYSICS I 
1460  CALCULUS III 
1473      PHYSICS II
5647  MECHANICS 
5164  ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 
560023  ENGINEERING INNOVATION WORKSHOP 
5626  MACHINES AND INSTRUMENTS 
560030 (E)  SMART MANUFACTURING 
560017 (E)  INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND INNOVATION 
560033 (E)  PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY PACKAGING DESIGN 
5638 (E)  PATENTS, BRANDS AND FRANCHISES
560037 (E)  AUTOMATIC LEARNING

Business Engineering Area

The subjects of this area enhance Industrial Engineering students’ soft skills and develop their organizational management competencies, both at functional and managerial levels. This allows our graduates to lead change processes in global environments.

CODE SUBJECT
5644 BUSINESS ORGANIZATION 
4380 ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT 
5623  OPERATIONS COSTING 
5625  ECONOMIC ENGINEERING 
5646 LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP 
2282 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 
5654 ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 
5661 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 
5665 (E) MANAGEMENT SKILLS WORKSHOP 
560029 (E) B2B MANAGEMENT 
5657 (E) COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT 
5685 (E) SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 
5673 (E) BUSINESS GAME 
5679 (E) HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT 
560005 (E) DIGITAL MARKETING TOOLS

Production and Logistics Area

The subjects of this area give Industrial Engineering students the skills to innovate, design, manage, control, optimize and lead processes based on quality, as well as to manage the logistics processes and supply chain of any organization from purchasing to final distribution in an omnichannel environment.

CODE SUBJECT
5031 INTRODUCTION TO PROCESS ANALYSIS 
560008  WORK DESIGN 
560001  QUALITY MANAGEMENT 
560011 FACILITIES DESIGN  
560012  OPERATIONS PLANNING AND CONTROL   
5668  SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 
5669  OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY  
560027 (E)  DEMAND MANAGEMENT 
5380 (E) MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM 
5656 (E)  ERGONOMICS WORKSHOP 
5655 (E) PROCESS IMPROVEMENT WORKSHOP 
5681 (E) ERP PROCESS WORKSHOP 
560015 (E) LOGISTIC PROCESSES WORKSHOP 
560031 (E) MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT 
5672 (E) LEAN MANUFACTURING 
560014 (E) ADVANCED LOGISTICS 
560034 (E) INTERNATIONAL TRADE 
5684 (E) MANAGEMENT AUDIT PRACTICES  
560036 (E) OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Industrial Projects Area

The subjects of this area enable Industrial Engineering students to develop improvement projects that increase business competitiveness, investment projects aimed at solving a need, and technical research projects that produce new knowledge, thus allowing them the creation of patents.

CODE SUBJECT
5662 PROJECT FORMULATION AND EVALUATION 
560024 RESEARCH SEMINAR 
5670  RESEARCH PROJECT I 
5680  RESEARCH PROJECT II
560028 (E)  SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS ASSESSMENT 
5674 (E)  PROJECT MANAGEMENT 
560032 (E)  AGILE METHODOLOGIES 
560035 (E) PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION MANAGEMENT

Process Technology Area

The subjects of this area provide Industrial Engineering students with theoretical-practical knowledge of physical-chemical and technological processes as part of an integrated industrial transformation system, in accordance with the environment and sustainable development.

CODE SUBJECT
5643 GENERAL CHEMISTRY 
5645 INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY 
5334 THERMODYNAMICS 
5222 UNIT OPERATIONS AND PROCESSES 
5648 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
5628 INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY 
560009 (E) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 
5278 (E) FOOD TECHNOLOGY 
560013 (E) FOOD PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 
560007 (E) TEXTILE AND APPAREL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 
5671 (E) CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES 
560006 (E) TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

Data Analysis and Process Optimization Area

The subjects of this area develop students’ knowledge of modeling tools through the design of experiments, allowing them to manage data by using methods, technologies and tools to process large amounts of data and convert them into knowledge for decision-making.

CODE SUBJECT
560019 DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS
560020 STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
560021  DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
560022  STRATEGIC MARKET ANALYSIS
1506  OPERATIONS RESEARCH I
1507 OPERATIONS RESEARCH II
5659 PROCESS SIMULATION
560025 (E) MACHINE LEARNING
560026 (E)  DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS FOR DECISION-MAKING
5664 (E) PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS
560016 (E)  DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN ORGANIZATIONS