Our program is aimed at providing education in Logistics, Operational and Transportation Models, so that professionals are capable of improving, modeling, analyzing, operating, managing, and adequately evaluating integral activities in supply chain and urban mobility. We use modern methods and technologies to enhance and simplify processes. Our mission is to educate Engineers in Logistics and Transportation who are committed to ethics and morality, possess solid knowledge in Integral Logistics, Operations Management, Process and Transportation Optimization, and have the ability to lead, innovate, and conduct research of excellence in these areas, contributing to the development of the country and the region.
International Accreditation
The Logistics and Transportation program is accredited with the EUR-ACE label by the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE).
* Undergraduate tuition/fees:
The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador in its Article 356, among other principles, establishes that third-level public higher education will be tuition/fees free. Zero cost education is linked to the academic responsibility of the students.
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We are looking for students who are:
-Critical thinkers
-Analytical
-Proficient in logical and abstract thinking.
-Willing to work in computer and programming environments.
Educational Objectives:
1. To contribute to the effective management of public and private entities by optimizing operations in mobility, logistics, and transportation.
2. To participate or manage engineering or research projects related to logistics and transportation or lead multidisciplinary teams.
3. To acquire new knowledge and experiences in the field of logistics and transportation engineering through professional development, continuous education, or advanced degree programs.
4. To promote responsible and technological development of society from the field of Logistics and Transportation, with professional ethics.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems in logistics, optimization, transportation, and mobility by applying engineering, science, and mathematics principles.
2. Ability to apply engineering design in the areas of logistics and transportation to produce solutions that meet specific needs while considering public health, safety, well-being, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
3. Effective communication skills with a variety of audiences:
Effective communication in Spanish.
Effective communication in English.
4. Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations in logistics, transportation, and mobility and make informed judgments considering the impact of these engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and social contexts.
5. Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team where members provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, set goals, plan tasks, and achieve objectives.
6. Ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation within the framework of engineering in logistics, optimization, transportation, and mobility, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.
7. Ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as necessary, using appropriate learning strategies.
8. Ability to design real solutions within the framework of engineering in logistics, optimization, transportation, and mobility that propose unique value in response to specific needs, considering the perspectives of stakeholders.
First Year
Descripción:
It is a core course for Engineering, Natural Sciences, Exact Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities, students. Topics, such as, topological notions, limits and continuity of real variable functions, derivatives and their applications, antiderivatives and integration techniques, and the definite integral with its applications, are examined. This course is aimed to the development of student’s skills and know-how in the derivation and integration processes, as a fundamental basis for the following upper level courses in its academic training process
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Physics: Mechanics is a basic, theoretical-practical training course aimed at engineering students, with laboratory experimentation activities, which provides the fundamentals of particle mechanics, rigid bodies and fluid mechanics, in an environment of active learning.
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In this course, students apply the Design Thinking methodology to identify, analyze real-life problems or needs, to design innovative solutions. Students work in multidisciplinary teams to present solution proposals that add value to customers/users from private companies, public organizations and non-profit organizations.
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The course presents students with strategies to solve common problems in various professional fields through the design and implementation of solutions based on the use of a programming language. It covers the basic principles so that the student can read and write programs; emphasizing the design and analysis of algorithms. In addition, it introduces students to the use of development and debugging tools.
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This basic and general education subject presents grammatical structures to produce a simple paragraph based on a writing program. Additionally, it allows the identification of a specific argument in oral and written communication. It also considers learners’ personal opinions about different topics related to social, academic, and professional aspects. It includes the necessary vocabulary to make comparisons between present and past, books or movies description, creation of simple students’ profile, opinions about inventions, formal apologies and tell past events.
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Vector calculus is a course aimed at the basic training of professionals in the areas of Engineering, Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences who developed problem-solving and problem-solving skills in the n-dimensional context. For this purpose, the course consists of 5 general themes: three-dimensional analytic geometry and functions of several variables, differential calculus of scalar and vector fields, optimization of scalar functions of several variables, line integrals and multiple integration, surface integrals and theorems of the vector theory; being the main applications of this course: the optimization of functions of several variables applied to practical problems, the calculation of lengths, area, volumes, work and flow, using objects of the plane and space.
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This is a basic training course for engineering and science students, in which the study of matrices, systems of linear equations, vector spaces, linear transformations, spaces with inner product, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The main purpose of the course is to contribute to the integral formation of the future professional allowing later, to take care of conceptual, social and technological necessities in the solution of problems and development of the abstract thought.
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This transversal course is basic for students of Computing, Statistics, and Logistics and Transportation. It provides an introduction to the study of a branch of contemporary mathematics that develops reasoning and the application of mathematics to solve problems discreet in nature. It includes the study of mathematical logic, proofs, sets, counting techniques, whole number structures, graphs and trees. Algorithms that allow obtaining results in discrete structures and grammars are also studied, an environment that the engineers that we train will surely face.
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It is a subject of professional training for students of the Engineering in Logistics and Transportation career. This course provides the student with the fundamental knowledge to analyze the operation of road, maritime and air transport, and their interaction through multimodal transport. It begins with a comprehensive view of the importance of transportation in the supply chain, and introduces the elements of the transportation system. The following sections study the elements that are part of the modesof road, maritime and air transport; its regulation and administration within a local and global scope. Finally, the last section deals with multimodal integration that has been fundamental for the internationalization of markets.
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This subject of basic formation and general education presents the grammatical structures for the production of an academic paragraph, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. In addition, it allows the identification of specific arguments in oral and written communication, considering the production of one's own criteria on different topics of a social, academic or professional nature. The necessary vocabulary is also applied to refer to the different forms of communication, share work experiences and the use of digitl technology, tell short stories about interpersoanl relationship and personalities, and comment on the future of the environment.
Second Year
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In this subject, we study the development of the academic prosumer profile of the students, which should be consolidated throughout each individual's life, based on the processing of complex, holistic, and critical thinking. We aim to foster understanding and the production of academic knowledge through rigorous analysis of realities and readings from various academic/scientific sources.
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The Statistics I course allows students to improve their ability to analyze, synthesize and solve problems, by studying the statistical foundations for obtaining information from a set of data, starting from their information gathering, procedure, analysis and interpretation of the data obtained. Also, the concept of probability will be studied as a measure of uncertainty, mathematical models of discrete and continuous random variables will be analyzed univariate and multivariate, to finally consolidate the bases of inferential statistics
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This core subject of basic formation in the engineering degrees begins with the study of convergence criteria for numerical series and power series, providing methods for obtaining the latter. Next, analytical solving methods of ordinary differential equations of first and superior order are examined, including solutions in power series. Then, the Laplace transform is defined and used as a solving method of linear ordinary differential equations. As a final part, solving methods for solving linear ordinary differential equation systems are studied. The subject examines application problems of engineering and sciences modelled by ordinary differential equations and series and includes the use of software in a part of each practical session.
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This is a professional training course for Logistics and Transportation students. This course begins with the study of the foundations of mathematical optimization such as convexity, polytopes, duality and, linear and integer linear optimization models. Then, the resolution of optimization problems is studied through mathematical formulation and the application of exact solution methods such as the simplex method and the branch-and-bound algorithm. In the same way, the course implements optimization problems in specialized software.
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It is a professional developing course aimed at Logistics and Transportation students. The course offers a global vision on Integrated Logistics and its impact on the management of companies, with special emphasis on the administration of the supply chain; covering topics such as the analysis of demand variability and the bullwhip effect throughout the suply chain, accomplish cost minimization and increasing the level of service offered.
Descripción:
This subject of basic instruction and general education presents grammatical topics for the elaboration of an outline and a structured composition, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. In addition, it allows the identification of arguments in oral and written communication on contemporary and academic topics. Additionally, appropriate vocabulary is applied to discuss issues related to different cultures, places where we live, everyday news, entertainment media, and past and future opportunities.
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Statistics II is a transversal subject of basic training for engineering and bachelor's degree students, it addresses the knowledge necessary to make inferences of a population through a sample by point estimations, intervals or hypothesis tests, so that the student will be able to solve complex situations through comparisons or establishing relationships between variables in a sample, thus facilitating the decision-making process from a statistical point of view.
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It is a professional training subject for Logistics and Transportation students. This course offers an overview of comprehensive logistics. It is intended that students acquire the ability to analyze the flow of materials, information and products of companies, from suppliers to customers. In this context, models based on forecasts, planning and administration of demand, inventory and transportation are approached for the analysis of the flow between suppliers and customers, recognizing the needs of the industry as well as those of the public sector.
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Numerical Optimization is a professional subject aimed at students of Logistics and Transportation, and Statistics. It deals with optimization problems through the use of numerical methods that allow to find the stationary points in an approximate way, that is, a solution that meets a minimum tolerance level. The course begins with a review of the fundamentals of numerical analysis and how through it, we can solve: systems of linear and non-linear equations, and then apply these concepts in solving optimization problems without restrictions.
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Combinatorial Optimization is a professional subject aimed at Logistics and Transportation students where integer linear programing are studied to find the solution of some specific logistics and transportation problems , using mainly the theory of graphs and solved through exact methods and heuristic methods.
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It is a subject of professional training for students of the Logistics and Transportation career. This course provides the theoretical foundations for the analysis of transportation systems, beginning with the identification and needs of transportation, system operation and prioritizing the study of terminals. Finally, it addresses the components that can generate relevant changes to the transport system such as the economy, politics, technologies and sustainable development.
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This subject of basic formation and general education, presents the grammar structures to produce a persuasive essay, through the transversal development of the writing programme. In addition, it allows students to identify specific arguments in the oral and written communication, as well as, to express their own opinions about different topics of social, academic, or professional fields. It also includes the necessary vocabulary to stablish a conversation, narrate situations of their environment, activities to reach their goals, analyze cause and effect and personal and professional opportunities.
Third Year
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This transversal course addresses the conditions required to innovate and the process associated with developing an innovation from an entrepreneurial point of view. Subsequently, topics such as the identification of opportunities, value creation, and prototyping and validation of products/services proposals are reviewed, as well as the elements of the business model and financial considerations that are essential for the feasibility and adoption of an innovation. Finally, entrepreneurial competences and process associated with the development and adoption of an innovation are studied.
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This is a professional training subject for Logistics and Transportation students. It includes two topics: sampling techniques and multivariate analysis. The first part of this course gives the bases to carry out a sampling and subsequent statistical analysis of the sample. This includes different sampling plans and inferential analysis in each type of sampling. The second part includes different multivariate data analysis techniques, to analyze various characteristics of interest in a set of data.
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This subject is professional training and is aimed at students of the Logistics and Transportation career. It deals with optimization problems in science and engineering in which the objective function is non-linear or where decision-making is based on the statistical study of some variables. The course includes the study of inventory management models, decision trees, and queuing theory, as well as an introduction to the optimization of non-linear functions with and without restrictions.
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Mathematical simulation is a professional training course aimed at Logistics and Transportation students. The participant is trained in the simulation of systems, through mathematical modeling, statistical theory and computational representation. The course focuses on the study and understanding of complex systems with stochastic characteristics, through the design and implementation of algorithms, which will serve as support for decision-making. The student is prepared in the construction and use of simulation software that allows analysis and problem solving.
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The course is professional training and is aimed at Statistics and Logistics and Transportation students. It is aimed at learning the main mathematical - statistical models that allow studying random processes that maintain a periodic occurrence over time. It focuses on the identification of the components that make up the data series, the selection and application of the best model that describes their natural behavior for subsequent obtaining of forecasts.
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This course is a professional training course for students of the Logistics and Transport, which allows developing skills in mathematical modeling of key aspects of the distribution of goods and passenger transport. During the first sessions of the course, various problems are addressed in the design of primary and secondary freight distribution networks subject to operational restrictions inherent to the supply chain. On the other hand, the classic four-stage model is studied as a paradigm for estimating the demand for passenger transport, which is a vital input in the strategic planning of the urban transport system. Finally, different applications in air and maritime transport are addressed
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It is a professional training subject for Logistics and Transportation students. This course is aimed at analyzing how to improve an existing warehouse or design a new deposit successfully, understanding, first, the life cycle of the project: from the study to the realization; Then, the physical flows of needs and means. An extensive exposure to information flows and the main functionalities that computer media must satisfy is sought. Finally, an audit method and a fast-improving action scheme are proposed for an existing warehouse.
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This course is a professional training couurse for students of Logistics and Transportation, which provides the elements for the analysis, planning, design and optimization of public transport within the urban area. It begins with the analysis of the urban transport operation planning process. In the second unit, the main variables are studied for the analysis of the supply and demand of public transport that serve as input in the planning process. In the third and fourth units, the models for the design of networks, routes and methodologies for developing schedules are addressed. Finally, fare models with various objectives and the application of subsidies are analyzed.
Fourth Year
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Metaheuristics is a professional training course for Logistics and Transportation students. The main heuristic and metaheuristic methods for solving optimization problems are introduced, in particular those of combinatorial theory that frequently appear in logistics management. Important definitions related to the computational complexity of each of the problems and their corresponding solution algorithms are presented, for a proper understanding, also considering their computer implementation.
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This professional course is aimed at Logistics and Transportation students. The cost administration associated with the different logistics activities is addressed, allowing adequate operations management, considering the value of money over time. Storage and transportation tariffs are elaborated, the selection of logistics operators is analyzed, and investment alternatives are also evaluated to help in adequate decision making.
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This course is a professional training course for to student of Logistics and Transportation, which is aimed at providing the theoretical foundations of the elements that compose the transit system (users, vehicles, road network and control device) and their interaction in both at a microscopic and macroscopic level, which allows the analysis and evaluation of various operational strategies in order to mitigate the negative externalities that vehicle operation entails.
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This transversal training course for all students of the institution has five chapters. It introduces the key principles of sustainability and the path to sustainable development. Addresses ecological principles by deepen into biodiversity, ecosystems, human population and ecosystem services. Study the fundamentals of renewable and non-renewable resources as well as the alternatives for sustainable use. Analyzes environmental quality specifically in the air, water and soil components, delving into issues such as climate change, eutrophication and deforestation. Finally, it emphasizes on the economic axis with topics such as circular economy and on the social axis on topics such as governance and urban planning.
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It is a professional course for Logistics and transport engineer students. The course includes topics of organization information systems to integrate managerial, operation and logistic processes. It covers the support of information technologies and structured relational database in order to improve and optimicz the use of production resources.
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In this final course, students must realize a Project to evidence the application of thecarreer´s profiles, developing creativity process , organization and relevance that includesthem in a profesional design experience.In the first course section, the customer/user needs will be identified, the problem/opportunitywil be defined, data will be collected and critical factors will be analyzed.In the last section, the solutions will be proposed to align the regulations and restriction forthe user/customer. The Project result will be a design or the most feasible solutionimplementation, the analysis and validation of its results.
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The subject is aimed at students at level 400-1 of the Statistics career of the FCNM. The purpose of this course is that the students acquire the ability to recognize their strengths and weaknesses for the benefit of their personal, academic and work development through the knowledge of the predominant type of intelligence, the application of a decision-making process for the elaboration of a matrix that allows them in turn to become people with high command of the effective communication process before an audience.
Additional
ARTS, SPORTS AND LANGUAGES ELECTIVE COURSES
1 credits - 1.9 ECTS
HUMANITIES ELECTIVE COURSES
1 credits - 1.9 ECTS
SELECTED ELECTIVE COURSE
3 credits - 5.8 ECTS
SELECTED ELECTIVE COURSE
3 credits - 5.8 ECTS
After 4 years of study, you will be capable of designing, modeling, and managing processes to enhance supply chain efficiency and optimize resources in national and international organizations or companies.
Occupational Profile
After graduating, you will be able to work within local, international, or governmental organizations in the following areas:
-Logistics
-Warehousing
-Distribution
-Supply Chain Management
-Traffic and Mobility
To obtain the title of Engineer in Logistics and Transportation, the following requirements must be met:
- Have a minimum of 44 credits in Professional Training.
- Have a minimum of 53 credits in Basic Training.
- Have a minimum of 2 credits in Complementary Training.
- Have a minimum of 6 credits in Itinerary Training.
- Demonstrate a minimum of 336 hours of professional internships, divided into 96 hours of community internships and 240 hours of industry internships.
- Pass the graduation process, equivalent to 144 hours.
The Capstone Project is a culminating requirement for graduation. These projects provide students with the experience of applying acquired knowledge and skills to the needs of society, with a focus on sustainability.
The IDEAR Fair showcases all Capstone projects, offering students a valuable opportunity to showcase their work and hone soft skills such as communication and teamwork. It is also a space for students to network with potential clients and future employers.
Explore all of the Capstone projects completed by the Logistics and Transportation program.
DID YOU KNOW?
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