Industrial Engineering has been designed to optimize operations in manufacturing, service, and transactional industries through process analysis, operations research, industrial analytics, and supply chain integration, with the aim of creating a positive social impact.
Mission
Cooperate with society to improve the quality of life and promote its sustainable and equitable development, through research, innovation and the training of upright and competent professionals in industrial engineering.
Core Components of the Program
· Operations Research
· Production Control Systems
· Quality, Safety, Health, Environment, and Human Talent Management Systems
· Logistics and Supply Chain Systems
International Accreditation
ESPOL's industrial engineering program is accredited by the ABET engineering accreditation commission since 2015.
The Industrial Engineering Program ESPOL is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Comission of ABET. Besides, the program has the EUR-ACE seal granted by the Accreditation Council of ENTER agency and the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE).
* Undergraduate tuition/fees:
The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador in its Article 356, among other principles, establishes that third-level public higher education will be tuition/fees free. Zero cost education is linked to the academic responsibility of the students.
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Curiosity, analysis, innovation, teamwork, and the ability to abstract and think logically, along with a basic understanding of experimental sciences and mathematics, are some of the characteristics you should possess to become an industrial engineer.
Educational Objectives
The graduates of the Industrial Engineering program at ESPOL should be able to:
To develop a successful career by effectively and ethically practicing industrial engineering, or by applying industrial engineering knowledge in related fields.
To attain a higher level of knowledge and experience through opportunities for professional development, continuing education, or graduate studies.
To be involved in entrepreneurial activities and/or to have taken on managerial or leadership roles with increasing responsibility and impact during their professional practice.
Contribute to the sustainable and equitable development of their communities or society.
Learning outcomes:
The training axes of the Industrial Engineering career are:
- Operations research
- Production Control Systems
- Quality Management Systems, Safety, Health, Environment and Human Talent
- Logistics and Supply Chain Systems
The learning outcomes of the Industrial career are:
1. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex industrial engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
2. Ability to apply design of industrial engineering systems, to produce solutions that satisfy specific needs, considering public health, safety and well-being, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental and economic factors.
3rd Ability to communicate effectively in Spanish with diverse audiences (oral and written form).
3.b. Ability to communicate effectively in English with diverse audiences.
4. Ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in industrial engineering situations and make informed judgments, considering the impact of engineering solutions in the global, economic, environmental and social context.
5. Ability to function effectively in a team, whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, set goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.
6. Ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use industrial engineering criteria to draw conclusions.
7. Ability to acquire and apply new industrial engineering knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
8. Design real industrial engineering solutions that propose unique value in response to specific needs considered from the point of view of those involved.
First Year
Description:
It is a core course for Engineering, Natural Sciences, Exact Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities, students. Topics, such as, topological notions, limits and continuity of real variable functions, derivatives and their applications, antiderivatives and integration techniques, and the definite integral with its applications, are examined. This course is aimed to the development of student’s skills and know-how in the derivation and integration processes, as a fundamental basis for the following upper level courses in its academic training process
Description:
Physics: Mechanics is a basic, theoretical-practical training course aimed at engineering students, with laboratory experimentation activities, which provides the fundamentals of particle mechanics, rigid bodies and fluid mechanics, in an environment of active learning.
Description:
In this course, students apply the Design Thinking methodology to identify, analyze real-life problems or needs, to design innovative solutions. Students work in multidisciplinary teams to present solution proposals that add value to customers/users from private companies, public organizations and non-profit organizations.
Description:
This basic and general education subject presents grammatical structures to produce a simple paragraph based on a writing program. Additionally, it allows the identification of a specific argument in oral and written communication. It also considers learners’ personal opinions about different topics related to social, academic, and professional aspects. It includes the necessary vocabulary to make comparisons between present and past, books or movies description, creation of simple students’ profile, opinions about inventions, formal apologies and tell past events.
Description:
General Chemistry is a theoretical-practical course aimed at the basic training of professionals in the areas of Engineering and Natural Sciences, which provides a scientific basis of the matter and its interactions, and seeks to develop in students the ability to solve problems related to the content of the subject. It begins with an Introduction to Thermochemistry, then the analysis of the physicochemical properties derived from the state of aggregation of matter: liquids, solids and solutions, the study of the Kinetics and Equilibrium of reactions and solubility.
Description:
This subject of basic instruction is a theoretical-practical course that contributes to the learning of concepts of electricity and magnetism in an environment of active learning.
Description:
Vector calculus is a course aimed at the basic training of professionals in the areas of Engineering, Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences who developed problem-solving and problem-solving skills in the n-dimensional context. For this purpose, the course consists of 5 general themes: three-dimensional analytic geometry and functions of several variables, differential calculus of scalar and vector fields, optimization of scalar functions of several variables, line integrals and multiple integration, surface integrals and theorems of the vector theory; being the main applications of this course: the optimization of functions of several variables applied to practical problems, the calculation of lengths, area, volumes, work and flow, using objects of the plane and space.
Description:
The course presents students with strategies to solve common problems in various professional fields through the design and implementation of solutions based on the use of a programming language. It covers the basic principles so that the student can read and write programs; emphasizing the design and analysis of algorithms. In addition, it introduces students to the use of development and debugging tools.
Description:
This is a basic training course for engineering and science students, in which the study of matrices, systems of linear equations, vector spaces, linear transformations, spaces with inner product, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The main purpose of the course is to contribute to the integral formation of the future professional allowing later, to take care of conceptual, social and technological necessities in the solution of problems and development of the abstract thought.
Description:
This subject of basic formation and general education presents the grammatical structures for the production of an academic paragraph, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. In addition, it allows the identification of specific arguments in oral and written communication, considering the production of one's own criteria on different topics of a social, academic or professional nature. The necessary vocabulary is also applied to refer to the different forms of communication, share work experiences and the use of digitl technology, tell short stories about interpersoanl relationship and personalities, and comment on the future of the environment.
Second Year
Description:
This is a basic level professional training course, which describes the history of Industrial Engineering and introduces you to process management, quality, production, operations research and human talent management. In addition, the main methodologies and tools of each of the knowledge areas and their application in the goods and services industries are studied.
Description:
This basic training course for entry-level engineering based on classical mechanics is the basis for mechanical design. The course describes the behavior of rigid bodies under the action of forces. In the first part of the course, Newton's laws are used to determine the static equilibrium of structures, machines, beams and cables. Concepts of point forces, moments, distributed loads, and friction are applied in solving engineering problems. In the second part of the course the movement of rigid particles and bodies under the action of external forces that produce acceleration is studied. Furthermore, alternative energy and momentum methods are presented for the solution of particular cases.
Description:
In this subject, we study the development of the academic prosumer profile of the students, which should be consolidated throughout each individual's life, based on the processing of complex, holistic, and critical thinking. We aim to foster understanding and the production of academic knowledge through rigorous analysis of realities and readings from various academic/scientific sources.
Description:
The Statistics I course allows students to improve their ability to analyze, synthesize and solve problems, by studying the statistical foundations for obtaining information from a set of data, starting from their information gathering, procedure, analysis and interpretation of the data obtained. Also, the concept of probability will be studied as a measure of uncertainty, mathematical models of discrete and continuous random variables will be analyzed univariate and multivariate, to finally consolidate the bases of inferential statistics
Description:
This subject of basic instruction and general education presents grammatical topics for the elaboration of an outline and a structured composition, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. In addition, it allows the identification of arguments in oral and written communication on contemporary and academic topics. Additionally, appropriate vocabulary is applied to discuss issues related to different cultures, places where we live, everyday news, entertainment media, and past and future opportunities.
Description:
This initial level course studies the decision-making process of economic agents in conditions of scarcity. It also studies the market processes and fluctuations in economic activity. Topics on microeconomics related to goods, market and prices are addressed. Macroeconomic topics such as the analysis of macroeconomic indicators and national income are also analyzed. Finally, the course concludes with a synthesis of the main problems of the economy.
Description:
In this professional course, students apply industrial engineering and design thinking tools to analyze and improve processes. First, tools and techniques are studied to analyze manufacturing, administrative and service processes. Then, work measurement tecniques are introduced and applied.
Description:
This is a professional course of applied engineering, which introduces to the area of Operations Research. The course is focused on support for decision making using linear relationships to represent real systems and their restrictions. The course makes use of relevant computer tools. The interpretation of the results obtained in connection with the real systems for decision making is emphasized.
Description:
This basic formation course describes the solution to problems of temperature change, phase change and fluid transport. Fundamental concepts of thermodynamics are used to calculate the energy required to heat or cool solids, liquids and gases, and produce phase changes. Fundamentals of fluid mechanics are used to calculate the necessary power to transport liquids and gases through pipes using turbomachines such as pumps and fans. Also, laboratory practices are used to illustrate concepts of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.
Description:
Statistics II is a transversal subject of basic training for engineering and bachelor's degree students, it addresses the knowledge necessary to make inferences of a population through a sample by point estimations, intervals or hypothesis tests, so that the student will be able to solve complex situations through comparisons or establishing relationships between variables in a sample, thus facilitating the decision-making process from a statistical point of view.
Description:
This subject of basic formation and general education, presents the grammar structures to produce a persuasive essay, through the transversal development of the writing programme. In addition, it allows students to identify specific arguments in the oral and written communication, as well as, to express their own opinions about different topics of social, academic, or professional fields. It also includes the necessary vocabulary to stablish a conversation, narrate situations of their environment, activities to reach their goals, analyze cause and effect and personal and professional opportunities.
Third Year
Description:
This intermediate level professional training course introduces the principles of value engineering, which is a methodology for the structured reduction of product costs (goods and services). It uses concepts of market research, cost estimation and allocation, as well as criteria to disaggregate and identify the resources involved in the generation of products.
Description:
This course introduces the fundamentals of technical drawing, with emphasis on the production of mechanical parts and assemblies. In addition, it describes the theory of projections and the representation of objects through auxiliary views, cuts, and sections. It also details the drawing rules regarding scales, lines, lettering, dimensioning, and standard formats. During the development of the course, drawings of machine elements, mechanical assemblies, structures, and distribution of areas in industrial plants are made by hand and in computer-aided design programs.
Description:
This initial level professional training course introduces the main manufacturing and service processes. The manufacturing processes of the metal-mechanical, plastic, food industries and the fundamentals of the unit operations involved in the production processes are studied. In addition, the main service processes, their characteristics, their respective value chains and methodologies for the design of services and measurement of customer satisfaction are studied.
Description:
This is an intermediate level professional training course. It belongs to the operational research field, in which the main forecasting and inventory control models used in distribution and manufacturing companies are studied. In addition, it includes the analysis of the uncertainty factors that should be included in the design of inventory replenishment policies in an organization.Throughout this course, strategies, techniques, concepts and technological tools are oriented at the identification, selection, and implementation of appropriate mathematical models to the problem under study.
Description:
Thie professional course presents continuous improvement tools according to the DMAIC methodology (Define-Measur-Analise-Improve-Control). All of the tools and methodologies are aimed to develop continuous improvement projects in manufacturing and transactional environments.
Description:
This is a professional training course in which students of industrial engineering are introduced to methodologies for continuous improvement such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and Total Productive Maintenance. The first part of the course presents tools to implement and manage quality and productivity improvement processes in any organization. Tools are also studied to identify customer needs such as: Quality Function Deployment (QFD), expectations mapping and job mapping. The second part of the course presents the methodologies of Six Sigma Improvement, Lean Manufacturing and Total Productive Maintenance. In addition, tools for identifying and analyzing causes (Modal Failure and Effects Analysis) are discussed in depth.
Description:
This is an intermediate-level professional training course, belonging to the operational research axis, which introduces the stochastic modeling process of manufacturing and service systems. The course covers the study of Markov chains and queuing systems, as well as their applications.
Description:
This is a professional course of the Industrial Engineering program, in which production planning systems are designed. The principles for the production planning management and control systems are presented, according to the Push production strategy. The operation of a production planning and control system is analyzed through the study of its long, medium and short term components.
Description:
This professional applied engineering course introduces the area of occupational health and safety. The course is focused on the application of national and international standards that allow controlling the risks that generate occupational accidents. Matrices for hazard identification, risk assessment and determination of controls are developed, considering current Ecuadorian legislation on occupational health and safety. Methodologies for occupational accidents investigations are also applied, the protocols considered for emergency response and the necessary requirements for the structure of an occupational health and safety management system are studied.
Description:
This transversal training course for all students of the institution has five chapters. It introduces the key principles of sustainability and the path to sustainable development. Addresses ecological principles by deepen into biodiversity, ecosystems, human population and ecosystem services. Study the fundamentals of renewable and non-renewable resources as well as the alternatives for sustainable use. Analyzes environmental quality specifically in the air, water and soil components, delving into issues such as climate change, eutrophication and deforestation. Finally, it emphasizes on the economic axis with topics such as circular economy and on the social axis on topics such as governance and urban planning.
Fourth Year
Description:
It is a professional formation course that offers an overview of logistics and its impact on costs and service level in organizations. It includes various topics such as analyzing the flow of materials, information, demand, and money through the logistics network. In addition, it presents the basic principles of supply chain management, warehouses, inventory, and transportation.
Description:
In this professional course, students apply and solve discrete optimization models. Exact and heuristic methods are ued to solve a variety of problems, including: assignment models, facility location models, job sequecing models, routing models, and network models.
Description:
This professional industrial engineering course is aimed at undergraduate students. It presents the principles, techniques, and tools for elaborating discrete-event simulation models such as queuing theory, algorithms for the generation of numbers and random variables, techniques for verification, and simulation model validation. The course emphasizes applying statistical tools for the analysis of input and output data of the model, such as goodness of fit tests, descriptive statistics tools, and hypothesis tests. In addition, the application of specialized programming languages for the modeling of manufacturing and service systems is considered.
Description:
This professional course applies lean manufacturing concepts for the design of production planning and control systems. In the beginning, the course presents the factory physics principles and the variability and utilization influence in the production process performance. Subsequently, focus factory concepts are applied to the development of machining and assembly cell manufacturing. The course presents Just in time principles. Finally, the course shows production planning and control systems based on the Theory of constraints.
Description:
This course studies the variation of the money value over time, applying the capitalization financial laws and discount at simple and compound interestrates, which allows to find the equivalences between equity and analysis of cash flows, to evaluate saving alternatives, investments and credit to help in the decisionmaking process of personal financial decisions. Financial evaluation techniques such as present value, future value, annual value, and return rates will be applied, as well as the Cost/Benefit ratio for social projects. Being one of the introductory finance courses taught at ESPOL, it is aimed for students in the initial levels.
Description:
In this advanced professional course, we integrate the knowledge from different areas such as Production Systems Management, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Quality Assurance Systems, Health and Safety, Operations Research, and Finance. The course consists of defining requirements and applying quantitative and qualitative techniques to carry out facilities location studies, planning and design (services or manufacturing), aligned with the organization's strategy, and considering dynamic environments that require flexibility and adaptability. We give emphasis to the correct material, information, and personnel flow, integrating the organization's operational, legal, environmental, and financial requirements.
Description:
This professional course provides methods and instruments for solving problems generated in the management of the supply chain of companies. It covers the theoretical foundations and the different strategies used for the design and planning of supply chain operations. Topics such as facility location, inventory management, supply and distribution, are comprehensively covered, with an emphasis on sustainability issues and the creation of competitive advantages.
Description:
This professional training course in Industrial Engineering introduces a set of techniques and models of Industrial Analytics, useful for supporting decision-making in manufacturing and services settings. Topics covered include classification and regression modeling, clustering analysis, and association rule. Throughout the course, the models studied are implemented in open source statistical programming languages.
Description:
This professional training course studies the motivation of people in the organizational environment, effective work teams, and the influence of culture on individual behavior. Moreover, this course analyzes effective organizational leadership skills by contrasting the behavior of individuals in work situations with discussions of organizational theories and models for the solution of real work conflicts and the design and reforms of organizational culture and strategies.
Fifth Year
Description:
This transversal course addresses the conditions required to innovate and the process associated with developing an innovation from an entrepreneurial point of view. Subsequently, topics such as the identification of opportunities, value creation, and prototyping and validation of products/services proposals are reviewed, as well as the elements of the business model and financial considerations that are essential for the feasibility and adoption of an innovation. Finally, entrepreneurial competences and process associated with the development and adoption of an innovation are studied.
Additional
ARTS, SPORTS AND LANGUAGES ELECTIVE COURSES
1 credits - 1.9 ECTS
HUMANITIES ELECTIVE COURSES
1 credits - 1.9 ECTS
SELECTED ELECTIVE COURSE
3 credits - 5.8 ECTS
SELECTED ELECTIVE COURSE
3 credits - 5.8 ECTS
After four and a half years of study, you will be able to:
Solve complex problems through the use of mathematical and statistical tools.
Analyze and interpret information in the context of industrial engineering.
Design a system, component, or process to meet the desired needs and requirements.
Utilize techniques, skills, and modern tools for continuous process improvement, among other aspects.
Occupational Profile
You can work in the following areas:
Process reengineering
Sustainable supply chains
Transportation and distribution management
Demand and supply planning
Continuous process improvement
Production planning and control
Occupational health and safety
Research centers or groups focusing on data modeling and analysis
Consulting and advisory roles
In order for the student to enter the graduation process, the following requirements must be met:
- Passing all courses in the curriculum.
- Completing 400 hours of pre-professional internships and/or social engagement.
- Finishing the integrative project.
| Categories | Credits |
| Professional training | 61 |
| Itinerary | 6 |
| Pre-professional business internships | 5 |
| General education | 18 |
| Mathematics and basic sciences | 33 |
| Community service practices | 2 |
| Curriculum Integration Unit | 8 |
| Complementary Arts, Sports, and Languages | 1 |
| Humanities Complementary Course | 1 |
| 135 |
The Capstone Project is a culminating requirement for graduation. These projects provide students with the experience of applying acquired knowledge and skills to the needs of society, with a focus on sustainability.
The IDEAR Fair showcases all Capstone projects, offering students a valuable opportunity to showcase their work and hone soft skills such as communication and teamwork. It is also a space for students to network with potential clients and future employers.
Explore all of the Capstone projects completed by the Industrial Engineering program.
DID YOU KNOW?
An Industrial Engineer has the ability to design, manage, and control production systems, supply chains, quality, and occupational health and safety; in addition to applying operations research to optimize processes in service and manufacturing environments.
