Industrial Engineering & Management

You gain further experience with your internship "Exploring today: Managing operational challenges" and with a minor in the Netherlands or abroad. Here you can find all minors that HZ has to offer.

During your 4th year, you broaden and deepen your knowledge and skills even further and you prepare for your final thesis. You focus on themes, such as:

• Focus on future: analyzing strategic innovations
• Professional integration: aligning operational challenges with strategic innovation

In the third year, you will do an internship at a company of your choice in the Netherlands or abroad. During your internship, you will experience first-hand how process optimisation works in a technical company. How can you design the process to install a smartphone screen in such a way that less damages occur, less phones are rejected and the profit increases?

In your final year, you will conduct a graduation research and you will demonstrate that you are ready for the profession field. You can research how the production process of a renowned shoe manufacturer can be made more economical and efficient through robotisation and mechanisation, while at the same time the quality of the shoes remains the same as when they were handcrafted.

There is a large demand worldwide for professionals with a combined technical and managerial background. Industrial Engineering & Management offers the best job perspectives and highest starting salaries. Our graduates have secures positions as:

(Asset) manager
Assets are company resources, for instance machines, vehicles and other important ‘tools’. As an asset manager, it is your responsibility to make the right choice with respect to these (often) large, expensive and advanced assets. You will be responsible for the purchasing, complete life cycle and maintenance of these assets. To this end, you will outsource the research into the costs as well as the technical and commercial aspects, and the impact on the environment. You will give your advice based on this investigation.

Process engineer
You are able to quickly scan a company of department and use a variety of tools to analyse, improve and (re)design a given process. 

Quality or Health and Safety Engineer 
As a quality manager you assist in establishing systems to support an drive continuous improvements and minimize the costs. You plan, schedule, execute and coordinate the different activities related to quality, health or safety issues.

Upon graduation you can enroll in a master degree programme. If you want to do this abroad you can usually start straight away. If you wish to do this at a research university in the Netherlands, you may be required to follow a pre-Master’s programme.