The Mathematical Engineer will apply or create mathematical models to solve problems of industrial, administrative, and financial processes; whose models will be the basis for professionals of other specialties to research, design, produce, build, operate, maintain, estimate and manage systems of different degrees of complexity. If necessary, it will be able to simulate processes that allow foreseeing events.

It is recommended that the applicant enter the career in Mathematical Engineering possess the following qualities:

• Taste for mathematics and its applications.
• Ability to concentrate, synthesize and analyze
• Interest in the interaction of mathematics with other disciplines.
• Willingness to work in a team
• Discipline and perseverance in work.

a) General Characteristics

• They will have a solid professional background in mathematics and specialized knowledge in some areas of mathematics, according to their line of specialty.
• Will be able to analyze real problems, create mathematical models that represent them, design methods that lead to their solution, solve them and interpret the results to propose solutions to the real problem.

b) Specific characteristics

• Will know how to establish, and decide which processes, activities and tasks are susceptible to be modeled to obtain the solution to a problem or to optimize resources.
• Will be able to use mathematical models of real situations and, if necessary, create new ones.
• Will have the sufficient mathematical knowledge to obtain the solution to the modeled problems.
• Will know how to use computational tools to solve mathematical problems, as well as to develop their systems and apply them to specific problems.
• Will can interpret the results of the solved problems in such a way that experts in the area of the problem understand them.
• Will can communicate and express himself/herself with convincing power to manage dialogue and consultation with other professionals, leading or integrating interdisciplinary groups.
• Will know how to manage human and material resources and will be able to elaborate feasibility studies.
• Will have initiative and willingness to search for new solutions to partially or unsatisfactorily solved problems.
• Will be able to successfully carry out cutting-edge scientific research projects, as a collaborator or coordinator, obtaining new theoretical knowledge in their area.

c) Attitudes

• Will have an attitude of self-improvement and updating in scientific-technological and socio-humanistic knowledge.
• Promote the improvement and development of colleagues and collaborators.
• Will have an open attitude and broad criteria in the face of new problems and situations, showing a willingness to change for progress and welfare, both social and personal.
• Will know how to communicate, transmit their ideas and learn them from others.
• Will have the will and methodologies to disseminate mathematical culture to non-specialists, both in public and private organizations, as well as in the social sector in general.
• Will have the flexibility to adapt to the market, negotiating skills, and practical sense to implement the schemes proposes to successfully carry out each project in which he/she intervenes.

d) Ethics

• Will know in terms of professional ethics, judge the limits of the law regarding the handling and knowledge of information, and will make the appropriate decisions.
• He will have elements to judge the impact, implications, and consequences of the application of his knowledge and solutions to problems.

e) Field of professional practice

• He/she will work in organizations (companies or industries) that generate goods or provide services to the public, private or social sector.
• Combining technical preparation and entrepreneurial spirit, he/she will also be able to work on his/her own, by providing professional services to public or private companies, or by creating companies or industries in his/her area of specialization.

f) Qualities of the multiplicative effect

• Will be aware of the importance and the need for feedback in the exercise of his professional life, and the training of human resources, either as a teacher or as a project advisor.

The requirements to become a student at the Institute are:

1. To comply with the academic background and other requirements indicated in the respective call for applications.
2. To take the admission exam for the higher level.
3. To be selected for admission.

Field of professional practice

He/she will work in organizations (companies or industries) that generate goods or provide services to the public, private or social sector.

Combining technical preparation and entrepreneurial spirit, he/she will also be able to work on his/her account, by providing professional services to public or private companies, or by creating.

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

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