Applicant Profile

The applicant to the Industrial Engineering program at Fundación Universitaria Navarra - UNINAVARRA will have communicative skills to express the knowledge acquired in their academic training, and will have clarity in their professional choice, as well as ethical bases that express their commitment to the community, the family and the State.

Graduate profile

The Industrial Engineering graduate has a comprehensive training and knowledge to make diagnoses of the environment that allow him/her to provide solutions based on Industrial Engineering, design and implement logistic chains, organize the production of a company of goods or services, design and implement solutions to improve productivity in production processes of goods and services, design and implement solutions to marketing problems of any type of company, create companies, and apply the administrative process in other fields of knowledge.

The graduate of the Industrial Engineering program, at the end of his or her training process, will be able to:

• Design and implement solutions to production problems of goods or services, based on methods and techniques of flexible production systems, to increase productivity.
• To formulate research projects aimed at optimizing production systems and resources used to improve competitiveness.
• Integrate quality systems techniques, tools and knowledge into process design, according to the organizational context, to evaluate and monitor process performance.
• To guide and apply the knowledge of engineering, socio-humanistic sciences and basic sciences, integrating them for the design, planning, management, optimization and control of production systems of goods and services that involve human resources, processes, financial, technical, time, information and material resources, in order to contribute as an agent of productivity improvement, which is the fundamental objective of the company.
• Contribute to the socioeconomic development of the region and the country, actively participating in the solution of problems within the organizations, seeking to make them highly competitive.
• Perform management and control activities in areas of the company such as Production, Quality, Administration, Human Resources, Logistics and Research and Development.

Professional profile 

The professional of the Industrial Engineering program is the person who, after completing his or her degree, can work in the field of operations management, supply chain management, project formulation, evaluation and administration, marketing management, and administrative and financial management in any type of company.

According to the curriculum, the Industrial Engineering graduate will be able to:

• To become entrepreneurs by creating their own technology-based company.
• Assume operational and managerial positions in engineering areas of companies.
• Participate in data analytics teams in public and private entities.
• Assume positions in logistics areas in industries of multiple sectors.
• Work as an analyst for decision support in public and private entities.
• Participate in engineering projects in various fields.
• To act as advisor and/or consultant in procedures involving his line of action in projects and undertakings.

In addition, he/she will be able to work as:

• Production Manager.
• Logistics Manager.
• Quality Manager.
• General Manager.
• Cost Director.
• Purchasing Manager.
• Entrepreneur of his own company.
• Professional in charge of production planning and start-up in manufacturing companies.
• Manager, coordinator or director of Quality in companies of different productive sectors of the country.
• Human Resources manager, coordinator or director.
• Operations coordinator or director in service sector companies.
• Coordinator or logistics manager in companies of the transportation sector.
• Manager, coordinator or director of investment and research projects.

Based on these approaches and in accordance with the demands and requirements of the State, the Navarra University Foundation - UNINAVARRA orients the Industrial Engineering program towards the development of competencies that define the professional profile of the graduate for the realization of their life project and their field of action. The professional has the ability to respond to specific labor needs, guaranteeing real present and future opportunities for work performance, by contributing to the solution of needs and problems of socioeconomic and cultural development. In addition, it has a proven technical, technological and scientific actuality in its contents, and is in line with the philosophy of the Institution, where the subjects that integrate the curriculum are relevant, appropriate and contribute to the formation of the professional profile of the academic program.

This makes it evident that there is a direct relationship between the professional, graduation and occupational profile and the name of the program, which has not been modified, but is maintained precisely because it is relevant in the current scenario of education and industry.