2. Introduction
Universities and business organizations are both responsible
for the formation of the engineering professionals.
However, in the majority of times, both act independently.
Universities tend to act focusing on the initial education of
engineers, whereas business organizations generally act
focusing on the training of the required competences for
their functions and procedures of specific needs. In order
to bridge this gap, universities and business organizations
have a joint responsibility to approach and particularly to
cooperate on the development of professionals creating
a profile aligned with the professional practice demand.
3.
Industrial Engineering Definition
In 1955, the American Institute of Industrial Engineers (now
the Institute of Industrial Engineers,
IIE) adopted the following definition of industrial engineering:
Industrial engineering is concerned with the design,
improvement, and installation of integrated systems of men,
materials, and equipment. Industrial engineering draws upon
specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical,
physical, and social sciences together with the principles
and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify,
predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such
systems.
4. Table 1. Definition of the professional
practice areas.
Area Definition
Automation In the industrial Automation
area of practice, engineers
should troubleshoot, repair
and maintain automated
industrial equipment, such
as computer numerical
control (CNC) equipment
and robots
5. Area Definition
Human Factors “human factors is the
scientific discipline
concerned with the
understanding of interactions
among humans and other
elements of a system, and
the profession that applies
theory, principles, data, and
other methods to design in
order to optimize human well-
being and overall system
performance”
6. Supply Chain
Management
“The design, planning,
execution, control and
monitoring of supply
chain activities with the
objective of creating
net value” for industrial
and service companies
8. Industrial Optimization Industrial optimization
make a link between
mathematics,
engineering and
management, using as
operations research,
heuristics or simulation,
for achieving the best
possible solution for a
problem for industrial
and service
companies, in terms of
a specified objective
9. Product Design “The conversion of a
need or innovation
into a product,
process, or service that
meets both the
enterprise and
customer
expectations. The
design process consists
of translating a set of
functional
requirements into an
operational product,
process or service”
10. Production
Management
Design, improvement
and management of
systems that deliver
products and services.
This area is related with
the design and
improvement of
production systems
and the activities of
production planning
and control activities
for the efficient and
effective use of those
production systems
