Industrial engineering: a transforming teaching

Abstract

The economic, socio-political changes and the challenges of the scientific-technical development that have emerged in the 21st century have accelerated a rethinking of the way forward to satisfy the new requirements, reconcile the demands of the present reality with the perspectives of the future. This determined an educational change oriented to solve the present contradictions, among them the need to perfect the Industrial Engineer's training, his professionalism, in order to face the challenges that lead to the concretion of the transformations in the university. In this sense, this article presents an experience that allows the Industrial Engineer to reflect the strengthening of a transformative didactics that characterizes the humanist essence of its training process, the methods and professional skills that guarantee university quality, endorsed by the practical experience accumulated in Ecuadorian higher education.