La formación en innovación tecnológica en la carrera de ingeniería industrial

Leticia Fernández Berdaguer; Leonardo Vaccarezza

doi:10.48160/18517072re18.531

Authors

Leticia Fernández Berdaguer Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
Leonardo Vaccarezza Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re18.531

Keywords:

Industrial engineer career, technological innovation, university

Abstract

An analysis on the ideal image of the industrial engineer as a social conception both in the professional field and curricula of the career in an Argentine university is presented. More specifically, its aim is to identify in the mentioned social conception the presence of technological innovation as a key aspect in the professional practice. On the one hand, the modern meaning of the technological innovation, as a process of feedback in the cognitive field and interactive in social life is discussed. Such technological innovation calls for professional habits that contribute to an active participating attitude and a strategic vision of the actual behavior of other people.

The analysis suggests that, although the inclusion of technological innovation is present in the social conception of the profession, its importance is cut down to a process based on the company as a unit with social entity and the decisive rationality of the engineer founded on unique dimension criteria of usefulness. On the other hand, if we consider the fact that technological innovation is an interactive process in which the engineer is in permanent communication with an heterogeneous social system, its application depends on specific models and Abstracts various interaction sources. Apparently, the creation of professional habits does not meet these requirements. A list of curricula subjects necessary to meet those requirements is included at the end of this article.

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