The Industrial and Systems Engineer program is the most complete in this region and it is the most popular degree program at the UDEM. This area of study includes industrial engineering, quality control, manufacturing and logistics. Our ISS professors are highly recognized in the industry.

Objective

To shape professionals who can design, establish, and manage global quality systems of production and administration in a manner that fulfils their client¿s needs while optimizing their profitability. Our graduates stand out not only for their professional preparation, but also for their personal integrity.

Enrollment Profile

The candidates who will study this program are committed to the well-being of society and interested in improving their environment; they search continuously for opportunities for self improvement and enjoy the responsibility of decision-making. In addition to excelling at analysis and project design, they are sensible to issues of humane treatment and strive to help others.

Graduation Profile

Upon completion of their undergraduate degree, the students will have the following knowledge, skills, and attitudes:

Knowledge of: 

• Physics: classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and fluid analysis. 
• Mathematics: differential calculus, integral calculus, differential equations, numerical methods, probability, and statistics. 
• Supply Chain: inventory control, transportation of merchandise, control and layout of warehouses and distribution centers, and handling of tools for inventory control, such as MRP. 
• Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness: obtain knowledge of the main contributions of the quality gurus, like Deming, Juran, and Ishikawa; learn to handle the statistical and administrative tools for problem solving as well as the methodologies which help companies to improve their quality, productivity, and competitiveness. 
• Industrial Engineering: time and motion measurement of work methods; plant layout design. 
• Research and Management of Operations: handling of materials, problem solving, work cells and cellular manufacturing, layout design, and reduction of set up times. 
• Systems Engineering: identification of root problems, handling of diagrams, such as those of affinity and current reality, methodologies, such as Hall's and Checkland's, benchmarking, and redesign of administrative processes. 
• Human and Economic Resources Management: concepts of organizational design, acquire a systemic vision of the organization, analysis and design of job positions, human resources planning, handling of unions and strikes, and knowledge of economic engineering. 
• Handling of computer systems for process simulation, fundamentals of programming, and use of Promodel Software for process simulation.

Skills for: 

• Oral and written communication. 
• Communication in a second language. 
• Designing, implementing and managing a supply chain, considering its structure, inventory, and transportation systems (Reference: conferences, associations, professional field study and Curricular Council). 
• Managing the manufacturing operations, from the location and physical distribution of the facilities up to the establishing of the financial and strategic feasibility of the business (Reference: conferences, associations, professional field studies, and Curricular Council). 
• Developing a systemic vision in the organization, intended to identify problems, perform diagnoses and design and implement solutions; they must also develop awareness for the care of personnel and for the environment (Reference: Curricular Council, conferences). 
• Designing, implementing and managing methodologies and tools intended to improve the quality, competitiveness and productivity of organizations (Reference: conferences, associations, professional field studies, and Curricular Council). 
• Developing the skills of applying Industrial Engineering concepts to service companies (Reference: professional field studies). 
• Competing for jobs in an international job market: the students gain theoretical knowledge and practical interaction with other cultures, without losing sight of both the social needs of their home country and their commitment to create a better Mexico (Reference: Curricular Council and associations).

Attitudes: 

• Adaptability to change: shaping a flexible character in order to achieve the goals within an environment of continuous competitive technological change in processes, products, and/or services. 
• Community service: given with an honest desire to help both the internal community of the company (the workers) and for the community living in the proximity of the company installations. 
• Social responsibility: by actively contributing to the social, economic, and environmental improvement of their surroundings on behalf of their company. 
• Ethical conduct in their professional activities: using both their knowledge of their profession and their moral values to identify the common good and try to achieve it. 
• Critical assessment of their work: the maturity to objectively assess the results of their work in order to detect areas for possible improvement. 
• Leadership: mastery of the process of motivating and orienting people so as to channel their efforts towards attaining the goals of the business. 
• Critical thought: intellectual ability and readiness to analyze and assess opinions, affirmations, results, changes, etc., both in their professional activities and in their everyday life. 
• Creativity: Generating innovative and useful ideas with their acquired knowledge (the seven principles of Leonardo da Vinci, tools for enterprising people, brainstorming, reverse method, etc.). 
• Result oriented: the ability to see problems as opportunities for achieving favorable results.

Each UDEM curriculum is made up of two blocks of courses:

Professional studies, these are the specialized, professional courses that make each degree plan unique.

General studies, these are the courses that provide a general and interdisciplinary overview.  

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CREDIT SUMMARY
MANDATORY	AREA	CREDITS
	General studies	36
	Professional studies	246
	Total mandatory credits	282
ELECTIVE	AREA	CREDITS
	General studies	18
	Elective courses for professional concentration	18
	Elective courses in other disciplines	12
	Total elective credits	48
TOTAL CREDITS		330

Industrial and Systems Engineers (IIS) are prepared to work in the area of professional development by seeking to constantly improve and optimize the work systems within the manufacturing sector (production) and /or the service sector of organizations. They also design, implement, and manage business production systems, as well as improving the quality, maintaining, and distributing such system.

They will be able to work in organization belonging to virtually every branch of the economy, such as manufacturing, financial, government, health, education, and services sectors, among others.

Luz María Valdez

de la Rosa

IIS Academic Program Director

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lvaldez@udem.edu.mx

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