Curricula Analysis of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) Bachelors' curricula

Curricula Analysis

a project by ESTIEM: a non-profit organization for European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management estiem org

The Curricula Analysis Project aims to provide stakeholders with detailed information about the current state of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) Bachelors' curricula.

Therefore, this project intends to:

Improve the international understanding of IEM Education; Provide Universities and Industries insights with the potential of supporting curricula development; Provide (potential) students a platform to explore the different IEM degrees available, to support their degree choices and data-based discussions on IEM Education; Support the development of ESTIEM's offerings to complement IEM students education

Project background

The framework of this project was initially developed in 2019 by the former Vice President of Education of ESTIEM (Duarte Oliveira) in collaboration with Diana Mendes and Rui Lima (professors of the University of Minho). Then the project altered by the Professional Development Committee and the outcomes of the analyses was made public in collaboration with the Analysis Committee.

Curricula analysed

Until the current date, our project focused only on Bachelor programs named Industrial Engineering and Management or similar (Industrial Engineering, Business Engineering, etc.).

9 Bachelors programs' analyses can be seen in our dashboards. The programs were chosen mostly based on convenience of the team conducting the analysis, while trying to provide insights on multiple European countries.

How is the analysis done?

Each course is added to the database and classified into one of the scientific fields*

Feel free to contact us for your questions and further information!

The data is refreshed in the dashboard, to allow its visualization.

Professional Development Committee Leader Vice President of Education leader pdc@estiem org vp-education@estiem org

SCIENTIFIC AREAS - THE FRAMEWORK

Each course of the programme was classified into one of the scientific areas listed below. The Scientifc Areas were then grouped into scopes. The aspects included so far column aims to help the reader further understand what is meant by each scientific area.

ScopeofScientificAreas ScientificAreas

Sciences

BasicandAdvancedSciences

Mathematics

Mechanics

Chemistry

DesignandManufacturing

FluidsandEnergy

Aspectsincluded

Geology,Physics,Chemistry,Biology,wtc.

Algebra,Calculus,MathematicaAnalysis,etc.

GeneralMechanics,MaterialsScience,FiniteElements,Deformablesolid Mechanics,Fatigue,Damage,Fractures,etc.

ChemistryappliedtothecontextofIEM,suchasindustrialchemical processes,chemicalreactors,chemicaltechnology,etc.

Technicaldrawing,CAD,materialssimulations,production technologies/processes,etc.

Thermodynamics,fluidmechanics,energymanagement,heattransfer, powerplantscalculations,etc.

Engineering

ElectronicsandAutomation

Informatics

DataScience

SustainabilityandEnvironment Improvement

FinancesandEconomics

Electricity,Robotics,Mechatronics,automationinproduction,network technologies,etc.

ProgrammingsubjectsandIT-relatedsubjects.

Informationsystems,databases,dataanalysisandvisualization.

Waterandenvironmentconsumptions,generalenvironmental knowledge,impactofIEMintheenvironment,etc.

Micro/macroeconomics,financialmanagement,accounting, investments,econometrics,etc.

Management

BusinessandManagement

OrganizationalKnowledge

StatisticsandOperationalResearch

Marketing,strategy,innovation,entrepreneurship,corporatelaw, businessdevelopment,etc.

Projectmanagement,leadership(knowledge),humanresources,etc.

Basicandadvancedstatistics,decisionmodels,gametheory,euristic optimization,stochasticmodeling

IndustrialEngineeringand Management

OperationsManagement

IndustrialEngineeringand Management

TransversalCompetences

SocialSciences

Logistics,supplychainmanagement,safety,operationsmanagement, maintenancemanagement,quality,ergonomics,etc.

IntroductiontoIEM,interships,thesis,casestudies,etc.

Researchknowledge,presentationskills,communicationskills,etc.

Sociology,Psychology,Philosophy,etc.

Other

Non-defined

Others

Usedwhenthestudentscanchoosefromanysubjectoftheuniversity ornearlyinfiniteoptionsareavailablefromverydifferentfields.

Languages,Ethics,careeradvising,etc.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture ExecutiveAgency(EACEA).NeithertheEuropeanUnionnorEACEAcanbeheldresponsible for them.

Work instructions & Filters

0. Here you can select the University and Programme that you want to see the analysis.

University-specific information

1. University name in English

2. Official University name

3. Faculty / School in which IEM is taught (if applicable)

4. Location (City & Country). If the University has more than 1 campus, the location showed is the main location where the degrees analysed are taught.

5. Official association name ESTIEM connects local associations of IEM students in Europe. This is the official name of the association that is connected with ESTIEM of the University selected.

6. Association name in ESTIEM. Associations connected with ESTIEM are named as Local Groups in the ESTIEM context.

Programme-specific information

7. Programme name in English

8. Official programme name

9. Programme website

10. Programme paths. In case there are specializations or minors that students can take, they are listed here. Each colour represents a different curriculum path and the same colours are used in graphs 17 and 18 to ease visualization.

11. # ECTS taken per student. Amount of ECTS that a student must complete in order to get the bachelor degree.

12. # ECTS offered. Total amount of ECTS that the programme offers, including all elective courses and minors/specializations-specific courses.

13. # courses. Number of courses offered by the programme, including all elective courses and minors/specializations-specific courses.

14. Date in which the programme was submitted for analysis. The programme was updated at the date it was submitted for analysis.

15. Last analysis update. Last date in which any change was made to the analysis (including changing the field 16).

16. Was this programme in place at the time of the last analysis update? A programme is in place if ir's currently being taught or about to start being taught.

Bar charts

17. Mandatory & Elective ECTS per programme path.

This bar chart shows the amount of Mandatory and Elective ECTS per career path (career paths can be seen at 10.), as well as the total amount of mandatory and elective ECTS offered in the programme. If you position your mouse on top of the chart, you can see the names of the career paths and the number of ECTS.

18. ECTS per scientific area

This chart shows the result of the classification of each degree into the scientific areas of the framework. The bars are grouped in scopes of scientific areas, which names can be seen on the top of the chart (Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management, etc.). If you position your mouse on top of the bars, you can see which courses were included in which area and how many ECTS they have. You can also see here the total ECTS that the curricula offers for each area. Note that elective ECTS are shown in more narrow bars.