Objective: Identify the causes of climate change, its effects on the physical and biotic components of the natural environment and at the socioeconomic level, proposing adaptation and mitigation measures for its management.

Crédits: 5.4 ECTS

Field trip:  This course includes a fiel trip to “El parque los Nevados”  Poleka Kasue high mountain observatory of the EIA research group.

Recommended for: All Engineering programs.

Highly recommended for: Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geological Engineering

Objective: Analyze the general properties of living beings, as well as their evolutionary and ecological processes, as a foundation for valuing biodiversity and exploring biological knowledge applications in engineering.

Crédits: 2 ECTS

Recommended for: All Engineering programs.

Objective:

• Reinforce the fundamental concepts of modeling and simulation
• Develop knowledge and skills to model random variables involved in engineering systems
• Know and apply event-oriented simulation techniques to analyze discrete systems
• Know and apply system dynamics techniques to model and simulate continuous systems

Crédits: 5 ECTS

Recommended for: All Engineering programs.

Highly recommended for: Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geological Engineering

Objective:

• Apply the scientific method and the global knowledge available to solve problems in society with the rigor of research to propose and analyze projects.
• Identify the methodological aspects of the research and its designs
• Apply the methods of collection, processing and analysis of quantitative information
• Apply the methods of collection, processing and analysis of qualitative information
• Identify the strategies for presenting and disseminating the results of research projects

Crédits: 4 ECTS

Recommended for: All programs

Objectives:

• Analyze the incidence of different forms of energy use on development models.
• Understand the different sources of energy, the techniques and technologies associated with their exploitation and use.
• Compare the different energy sources from the technical, environmental and economic perspective.

Crédits: 4 ECTS

Recommended for: All Engineering programs

Objectives:

• Determine the importance of consumer behavior within the field of marketing.
• Explain the various processes that operate on consumer behavior.
• Develop the capacity to articulate the different models that explain and predict human actions within the role of consumption.
• Understand the way consumers process information and its effect on persuasion and consumption.
• Understand the differences that exist between consumers and their implications for the consumption of goods and services.
• Understand the role played by variables such as: values – culture – lifestyle -… within the purchase decision process.
• Identify the variables that are related to complex decision making and marketing strategy design

Crédits: 5 ECTS

Recommended for: All programs

Highly recommended for Economics, Management, Accounting and related

Objectives: Study how producers and consumers make decisions in a market economy, providing tools to make sound organizational decisions. To do this, look for:

• Understand the basic principles of microeconomic analysis
• Quantify and qualify consumer behavior.
• Measure and qualify production and costs in a company.
• Examine the way in which a producer of a good or service facing constraints and whose objective is to maximize profit makes rational decisions.
• Predict price levels, quantities produced and consumed, and social cost in different market structures, perfect and imperfect competition.

Crédits: 5 ECTS

Recommended for: All programs

Highly recommended for Economics, Management, Accounting and related

Objectives:

• Safe and feasible design of simple buildings in seismic zones, taking into account accepted seismic design theories and methods
• Identify the seismic threat of a building
• Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of different structural systems and materials to withstand seismic forces and gravitational forces
• Identify the different philosophies of seismic analysis and design of buildings
• Analyze buildings subjected to seismic requests considering the force methodology
• Design seismic resistant buildings, including the main system and non-structural elements
• Propose the design methodology for displacements in regular buildings

Crédits: 5 ECTS

Recommended for: Civil Engineering

Objectives: Identify parameters of interest related to water quality, know the fundamental tools to study the processes for water purification and wastewater treatment, make decisions about the treatment systems that must be designed for the different productive activities, model the changes in surface water quality when discharge is made and become familiar with the environmental regulations applicable to the use and protection of water resources.

• Review the fundamentals of water chemistry for its application in the treatment processes that will be taught in class
• Identify the physical, chemical and microbiological parameters of water and the environmental regulations applicable to the use and protection of water resources.
• Study the removal processes of substances dissolved in water.
• Study the processes of removal of particles in the water
• Analyze the main physical, chemical and biological models that allow evaluating the evolution of water quality under different scenarios.

Crédits: 5 ECTS

Recommended for: Environmental Engineering

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to select, apply, and interpret various time series models to different data sets

• Identify and analyze the main characteristics of a time series.
• Estimate, validate and interpret time series models
• Use time series models to forecast.
• Program in R

Crédits: 5 ECTS

Recommended for: Industrial Engineering

Objectives:

• Be knowledgeable with the decision-support tools, especially System Dynamics.
• Being a critical user of models (owned or built by others), with the confidence to question and, if required, disprove their hypotheses and outcomes.

Crédits: 5 ECTS

• Recommended for: Industrial Engineering

Objectives: Develop technological solutions to the complex problems of the organization, through the use of the principles of Computational Intelligence.

Crédits: 5 ECTS

Recommended for: Mechatronics Engineering

Carry out the methodological analysis of the execution of an engineering project based on the rigorous application of tools and methodologies for problem identification, conceptual design and detail to use them in the analysis of the requirements to make plans for the implementation and operation of the product, whether it is a process, a physical or schematic prototype or a system in real operating conditions, considering the life cycle of the product and the possibilities of technology-based ventures.

• Apply techniques and tools to identify and formulate a problem
• Build a frame of reference on the historical evolution of the problem and the solutions, answering the question: How has the problem been solved historically?
• Apply the techniques for concept design, black box, morphological matrix and selection matrix and detailed design techniques, technical specifications, materials and technologies in the solution proposal
• Propose plans for the implementation and operation of the product and its life cycle and prepare a schedule of activities and budgets in accordance with the nature of the project
• Analyze the potential of the product as an entrepreneurial product and prepare the business plan
• Present a final product for the dissemination of the project as a scientific article, using formats to standardize the presentation of information and word processors and evidencing the use of scientific databases and technological surveillance
• Participate actively and meaningfully in debate spaces, realizing a concise, clear and orderly oral communication.
• Apply teamwork strategies for training and support with counseling and mentoring among peers, evidencing coordination in decision-making and the best representation before the community.

Crédits: 4 ECTS

Recommended for: all Engineering programs.