The Industrial Mechanical Systems Technician is responsible for maintaining, operating, and installing industrial mechanical systems according to standards and specifications.

Knowledge

• Classes are given in Spanish
• Mathematical logic
• Arithmetic
• Algebra
• Plane geometry
• Trigonometry
• Fundamentals of Physics
• Fundamentals of Chemistry

Skills​

• Ability to analyze
• Logical reasoning
• Decision-making
• Willingness to work in a team
• Practical skills

Attitudes

• Interest in updating the use, handling, and operation of industrial machines, equipment, and mechanical measuring instruments.
• Curiosity and interest in the automation of industrial processes.
• Tenacity to achieve professional goals.

Generic Competences

• Knows and values himself/herself, and approaches problems and challenges with the objectives in mind.
• Develops innovations and propose solutions to problems based on established methods.
• Maintains a respectful attitude towards interculturality and diversity of beliefs, values, ideas, and social practices.
• Maintains a personal position on topics of interest and general relevance, considering other points of view critically and reflectively.

Disciplinary Competences

• Explain the operation of commonly used machines from scientific notions.
• Design models or prototypes to solve problems, satisfy needs, or demonstrate scientific principles.
• Relates the symbolic expressions of a natural phenomenon and the features observable with the naked eye or using scientific instruments or models.
• Analyzes the general laws that govern the functioning of the physical environment and assess human actions that have an environmental impact.

Professional Competences

• Perform welded joints on metal plates according to standards, specifications, and manuals.
• Machine mechanical parts on milling and grinding machines, according to standards and specifications.
• Operate pneumatic and electro-pneumatic systems, according to standards and specifications.
• Maintain domestic and commercial cooling machines in service according to standards and specifications.

To enroll in the Middle Highschool with Technical Studies of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), the applicant must comply with the requirements established by the assignment contest of the Comisión Metropolitana de Instituciones Públicas de Educación Media Superior (COMIPEMS). Once the results are published, the student must complete the enrollment process as mentioned in the call for applications.

For further information, please visit the following web page: https://www.comipems.org.mx/

Check the list of subjects, credits and total hours of the program in:

Plan 2008

Plan 2022