Funciones y niveles de desempeño requeridos a estudiantes de Ingeniería Industrial según género y tipo de empresa

Abstract

The job market of industrial engineers, demand to fulfill key functions with different levels of performance, so the present research had as objective: Analyze the professional tasks done by students of this discipline during their placement taking into consideration both the student’s gender and the type of company where they worked at. The information was gathered at the end of the placement of 80 students through a questionnaire, obtaining the following: a) higher tasks performance with execution and supervision role for male students, b) the evaluation roles of the process functioning and implementation of improvement tools did not show gender preference, c) to measure the process’ functioning, was the key function with less tasks performed, d) highest number of students in large companies of foreign resources, disregarding to take advantage of the internships as linkage strategies with state or national companies.