Industrial Engineering and Management

This is Industrial Engineering and Management

Year 1 and 2

During the first year you will lay a strong foundation in technology, economy, organisational science and management. From day 1 you are introduced to your future professional work field. You work in project groups at host companies, on real-life assignments from the business sector relating to quality management, process optimisation and maintenance. You focus on themes, such as:

• Productions and Business Processes
• Asset and Maintenance Management
• Quality Management
• Operational Excellence

During the second year you will delve deeper into various subjects. Projects become more complex and focus on innovation and sustainability within an international context. You focus on themes, such as:

• Process Design and Process Redesign
• Material Sciences
• Business Information Systems
• Innovation, Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility and Change Management
• Marketing and Supply Chain Management

Year 3 and 4

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: analysing strategic innovations
• Professional integration: aligning operational challenges with strategic innovation

The fourth year is dedicated to two major improvement projects. You will work with other students on a strategic consultancy assignment for companies. You focus on the themes of:

• Sustainability
• Asset management

Internship and graduation

Internship
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?

Graduation research
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.