Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering & Management

The course Industrial Engineering & Management teaches you how to use technology, management, and economy in such a way that you will be able to improve production processes or make organizations profitable or more sustainable.

Do you want to help organizations - such as manufacturing sites, health care organizations, energy supply companies, or government agencies - to perform effectively in our increasingly complex society? Then this technical and managerial program is the right choice for you. As an Industrial Engineer and manager, you will be involved in designing, managing, optimizing, and improving business processes. You learn how to use technology, management, and finance to help organizations be more efficient and innovative, minimize risks, improve production processes, and maximize profitability.

There is a large demand worldwide for professionals with a combined technical and managerial background. Industrial Engineering & Management offers the best job perspectives and the highest starting salaries. Our graduates have secured 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 or department and use a variety of tools to analyze, improve and (re)design a given process.

Quality or Health and Safety Engineer

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

Years 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

Years 3 and 4

You gain further experience with your internship "Exploring today: Managing operational challenges" and with a minor in the Netherlands or abroad.

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 occurs, less phones are rejected and the profit increases?

Graduation research

In your final year, you will conduct 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.

Accredited study programme

In the Netherlands, the standard of higher education is maintained through an accreditation system that ensures legal regulation and quality assurance. All programmes at HZ University of Applied Sciences are examined and approved by the accreditor, the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). This means that they meet the quality requirements for accredited higher education set by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, ensuring that you are always choosing a programme of high standard.