The prestige of the UDEM's Mechanical Administrator Engineering program has grown significantly due, in large part, to the success of our graduates, whom have achieved strategic positions in the industry. Their success is a result of the solid theoretical-practical formation they received at the hands of renowned faculty and the practical experience they gained at the Center for Technological Innovation. In addition, many took advantage of our exchange program to study at leading international universities in this field, including Rice, Konstanz University, and University of Texas-Pan American.

Objective

To shape professionals capable of designing, implementing, and improving transformational products and processes in order to achieve technological development and business profitability. They will also be able to assess the technical and economic feasibility and effectiveness of newly implemented products and processes, thus creating a cycle of improvement.

Enrollment Profile

The candidates who enter this program have a natural capacity for the exact sciences and possess good analytical skills. They are interested in applying science, technology, and common sense for the benefit of society and enjoy designing and constructing objects for everyday use.

Graduation Profile

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

Knowledge of:

• Mechanical Engineering: Design of machines, mechanisms, and mechanical elements, as well as use of the technology of hydraulic and thermodynamic systems to obtain an adequate use of energy. 
• Materials Engineering: Cutting edge technology of the transformational materials and processes and their effect on the quality of products and productive systems. 
• Manufacturing Engineering: Manufacturing processes of the metal-mechanical industry.

Skills for: 

• Designing new applications for mechanical components, devices, or systems in productive or service processes to improve their performance, using engineering design methodologies. 
• Performing studies of technological prospective with a detailed knowledge of research and development results, testing and plans for market launching of new electro-mechanical materials, components, devices or systems, usable in productive or services' processes. 
• Assessing the performance of mechanical components, devices or systems, used in existing production or services' processes through the application of physical, economic, and mathematical concepts and models. 
• Creating opportunities for new businesses, derived from successful innovative applications of mechanical components, devices or systems, in production or services' processes through the application of methodologies for the development of new products. 
• Applying the operation principles of mechanisms, devices, machines and manufacturing processes. 
• Plan, control and automate the variables in a productive system. 
• Applying the mathematical and physical concepts in understanding engineering phenomena and problems. 
• English language: Bibliography and English courses, oral and written communication, both in general and the specifics of this field. 
• Reinforcement of professional practice and final assessing project, deriving from excellent labor linkage.

Attitudes: 

• The desire for continuous improvement in all processes and products involved in their area of knowledge. 
• Generation of a high performance technological environment that improves the competitiveness of production or services' processes by means of innovative proposals for mechanical components, devices or systems by applying methodologies from a portfolio of projects. 
• 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 (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	252
	Total mandatory credits	288
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

Mechanical Administrator Engineers (IMA) are prepared to work in:

• The operation, updating, or creation of technology. 
• The implementation and management of manufacturing systems and processes. 
• Planning, management, and control of productivity. 
• Quality control in production processes, both in the product and in the services. 
• They may also work independently as advisors or in their own businesses.

Martha Salomé López 

de la Fuente

IMA Academic Program Director

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martha.lopez@udem.edu.mx

Building 6, office 6317

 

T. (81) 8215-1000, ext. 1851

01 800-801-UDEM, ext. 1851