Towards the definition of a global logistics engineer: procedure to establish an international curriculum in engineering education
- Autores: María Victoria Muerza Marín, Emilio Larrodé Pellicer
- Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 33, no. Extra 6 (Parte B), 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Promoting Graduates’ Mobility in Engineering Education: Towards Global Engineers), págs. 2071-2082
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Universities are revealed as one of the main agents to foster international mobility experiences as they are responsible forestablishing the curricular itinerary of the different University careers. However, nowadays there is not still a commondefinition and establishment of engineer’s profiles to be globally identified. This is essential in the case of LogisticsEngineers because of the strategic importance of Logistics in many environments for the development of a country. Theobjective of this paper is to define a procedure to establish a generic logistics engineer profile at a global level. Thisprocedure comprises three phases: (i) comparison of different training procedures of logistics in several countries; (ii)determine the practical experiences an engineer should acquire in different environments at three levels: basic knowledge,knowledge that definesprofile, and specialization; and (iii) complementary education that enriches the knowledge acquiredin origin. This procedure can be applied with minor changes to other engineering disciplines. The research carried out todefine the logistics engineer profile includes the opinions of logistics enterprises, technological centers, and the authors’expertise in the area.
