Industrial Engineering & Management - Fontys University

The programme

Year 1
In the first year of study you are introduced to the broad subject of Industrial Engineering & Management. During the first quarter, you immediately start learning about production techniques and materials used in production. You will work in groups, analysing a household device with all its components. The remaining quarters of the first year, you will also be involved in group tasks, analysing and finding improvements for companies going through a range of change processes, including changes to production facility and product design. To facilitate your achievements in these projects, there will also be introductory lectures for key subjects such as business economics, manufacturing technique and organisation and management.
In projects you learn to answer questions like: ""how do we produce more efficiently?"", ""How do we organize our new factory? ',' Can we earn more if our company is going to outsource?
Topics: Project Management / Marketing / Management & organisation / Change Management / Mathematics / Ethics / Business Economics / Economics / Sociology / Health 7 safety at work

Year 2
Even as early as your second year, you work on problems real companies are faced with. Together with your fellow students, your tutor and your teachers, you are engaged in improving business processes. You apply your theoretical knowledge in actual companies. What do customers want? What about the costs? What do the staff members want? What machines will be used? Can you see things differently, gain a better understanding? You gain insight into the workings of a company, tackle problems and reveal opportunities.
Topics: Research skills / B2B Marketing / Operations Management / Human Resource Management / Law / Statistics / Project Management / Corporate Social Responsibility / Logistics / Purchasing

Year 3
In this year you follow a minor of your choice and complete an internship in an internationally oriented company. During this internship, you are expected to solve an actual problem the company is faced with, and you initiate the implementation of your own solution, possibly connected to shortening of lead-time, reducing production costs or addressing new market segments.
Topics: Minor / Study aboad

Year 4
In the first semester you are again involved in a group assignment the aim of which is to assist an internationally oriented company to realize one of its ambitions, for instance to improve the logistic chain or international marketing. In the second semester you will work on your graduation project, which is your opportunity to demonstrate that you are ready to acquire the bachelor degree. For graduation, you will analyse and advise on a complicated business issue.

Topics: Macro-economics / Graduation Project in International Company / Supply Chain Management / Business English / Quick Response Manufacturing / International Finance / International Law / International Organisation and IT

Career prospects
This programme leads to the international Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree. Students are trained to become all-round experts in business engineering. With the knowledge and skills obtained at Fontys University students are likely to find work as managers or consultants in large and medium sized production companies, but graduates may also be found in the service industry, or working for local authorities. Alternatively, there is the possibility to do a master or MBA and some students might take the step to start an own company.