Industrial Engineering

The industrial engineer from Universidad Católica San Pablo is a professional with a solid, comprehensive education, equipped to diagnose, design, implement, manage, and optimize processes and operations within organizations. This is achieved through a foundation in research, innovation, and entrepreneurship, advancing the frontiers of knowledge in the use of tools and technologies to contribute to the sustainable development of society.

Student outcomes refer to the skills, knowledge, and behaviors that Industrial Engineering students at UCSP acquire throughout their progress in the program.

• Ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation based on research methods, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.
• Ability to apply engineering design to create solutions that meet specific needs while considering public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
• Ability to work effectively in a team, with members jointly supporting leadership, creating a collaborative and inclusive environment, setting goals, planning tasks, and achieving objectives.
• Ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
• Ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions on global, economic, environmental, and social aspects.
• Ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences.
• Ability to create, select, and use modern engineering techniques, skills, resources, and information technologies, including prediction and modeling, with an understanding of their limitations.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of management principles in engineering and economic decision-making, and their respective application.

The Industrial Engineering Program at UCSP efficiently manages resources to ensure its graduates achieve the following educational objectives of the program:

• Conduct research in scientific, technological, and/or socio-environmental fields.
• Make decisions to diagnose, design, optimize, implement, and continuously improve processes within organizations, creating value.
• Innovate and/or develop ventures aligned with global trends.
• Continuously update their knowledge in methods, techniques, tools, and technologies to contribute to the sustainable development of society.
• Be socially and environmentally responsible leaders with a solid comprehensive education.

This laboratory is used for the generation and application of knowledge in the areas of renewable energies, engineering, industrial process simulation, occupational health and safety, environment and sustainable development; thus, these areas are optimized through scientific and technological research. It has sophisticated equipment, such as a forced circulation incubator, an autoclave, an ultrasonic meter, a jar-test, a variety of sensors, measuring instruments, hand and machine tools, a microscope and two solarimeters.

The IEM laboratory’s goal is to contribute to research and the application of engineering tools to improve people’s quality of life through low-cost technologies and environmental care. In addition, it improves industrial processes in companies of the region and collaborates with the generation of national technology.

In this laboratory, we find the HAS-200 module (Highly Automated System), which is composed of six stations: two material dosing stations (plastic beads, blue and yellow), quality control station, cap and label placement station, horizontal storage station, and dispatch station. The HAS-200 system reproduces a production process with a high level of automation, allowing the development of professional capabilities required in the most diverse industrial sectors (automotive, semiconductor, food, pharmaceutical, etc.).

With this modern automation module, students can recreate production processes, study times and movements, diagram flows, balance loads, gather statistics on processes and their possible deviations, propose different production schemes and make decisions that allow them to optimize all types of processes according to the perspective of an industrial engineer. The HAS-200 system is also a powerful platform for the development of research projects.

In this laboratory, the practices of the thermodynamics course and workshops related to thermodynamic processes are developed. It has a medium pressure electric boiler (working pressure at 40 bar), a temporary water storage tank, brine tanks for backwashing, a softening tank and an Alfalaval plate exchanger. This laboratory has temperature measuring instruments, such as a laser thermometer, hot water containers, beakers and test tubes for the respective analysis of the water and steam generated. In this laboratory, there is a hydraulic press for the compaction of various small samples. Research and thesis projects are also carried out in this environment.

In this laboratory, design and manufacturing practices of prototypes and parts in general are developed on a small scale. In the courses and workshops taught in this environment, new or substantially improved designs are proposed for industrial application or for the development of improvement and optimization projects in the industrial sector; the design goes through a process of improvement of the application of materials and the usefulness, functionality, quality and quantity of this design.

There are two 3D printers (Makerbot), which can be used to print models, parts and designs in general of small dimensions, which can be grouped and presented as assemblies. There is also a laser cutter (Trotec), which can be used to cut with high precision designs made of various types of materials, such as wood, metal and plastics.

This laboratory contributes greatly to the Industrial Engineering students’ development of innovation, creativity and vision in terms of process optimization. This consolidates the training of students in the technical and applicative part.

This laboratory resembles a food processing plant for the generation and application of knowledge in the areas of unit operations, plant design, flow diagrams, equipment design, cost estimation, good manufacturing practices, product design, and occupational safety and risk prevention. For this purpose, we have the necessary jacketed batch-type equipment, such as the kettle, the kettle and the fermenter/reactor, and others, such as the plate filtering machine, the automatic sieving machine, etc.

The Industrial Processes Laboratory’s goals are to train future professionals throughout their studies and to develop in them competencies in resolution capacity, design, innovation and ethics, in order to contribute positively to society and industry.