Modules:
- Industrial Management
- Personnel Policy in Industrial Plant
EDUCATION OBJECTIVES
The Industrial Management study program focuses on the development of a complex personality that is able to apply flexibly in the labor market. The study program is designed modularly, so that the students can create a graduate profile according to their preferences. The graduate can be profiled through the selection of optional subjects, specializing in industrial management, or personnel work in industrial plant. Within the selected profiling, the graduate obtains specific knowledge, skills and abilities according to the content of a selected modul.
Knowledge
The graduate has knowledge in the field of industrial engineering, design of production systems, their modeling and simulation, production management, focusing primarily on pre-production and innovative processes and trends in production, comprehensive quality management, human resource management, ergonomics, innovation, project, investment and intercultural management.
The graduate has got knowledge of critical systems analysis in the theory and practice of sustainable strategic management and can characterize the relevant requirements of customers and other stakeholders that relate to the products and services provided. He also has got knowledge of the social sciences.
Skills
The graduate has practical skills in the field of designing production systems, their modelling, simulations and can plan, design, implement and monitor production engineering projects, innovations, logistics, ergonomics, human resources and quality. The student can use selected methods of operational analysis, tools for rationalization of work and methods of continuous improvement in these areas in order to ensure sustainable business performance. He can create corporate and entrepreneurial strategies with an emphasis on the sustainable development of the organization, apply appropriate indicators of performance standards, set performance standards, develop evaluation criteria and performance evaluation systems of employees, with regard to the job position categorization, with a focus on increasing the process efficiency of production units.
The graduate is able to provide support in the process of implementation and acceptance of changes, career management consulting, economic valuation of investments in employees, create succession systems and talent search and management systems, prepare and organize internal personnel audits, create competency models, employee evaluation systems, complex education systems and employee development and refine individual personnel indicators in the context of socially responsible business principles.
The graduate is also able to use tools for processes modelling and creating and developing systemic approaches in strategic management, analyze the possibilities of using different approaches for solving specific strategic tasks of industrial enterprises, create mathematical models of processes and tasks related to the management of production, transport and logistics systems, evaluate the importance of innovation from a business point of view, identify the essence of innovation strategies and their importance for innovation planning, identify phases of the innovation process in the company, use in practice basic methods and tools for new product development in the innovation process, identify innovation procedures within production processes and services and use management systems according to ISO standards for ensuring the quality of products and services provided.
At the same time, the graduate is able to communicate in a foreign language professionally, to develop own language competences and to manage own and team's creative work.
Competencies
The graduate is able to solve complex problems in technical as well as managerial areas with a high degree of independence. Thestudent can optimize processes in an industrial enterprise in a way that increases the overall effectiveness of the organization´s activities. The graduate is capable of identifying key causes of problems and subsequently proposing corrective measures to increase labor productivity and reduce production costs.
Furthermore, the graduate is able to plan the investment plans of the company, evaluate the investment intenton of the company, manage information security, financial and project security, and oversee the implementation of the company's investment plans.
The graduate is able to work in national, global, international, interdisciplinary teams, can integrate management systems and use their hardware and software support. The graduate acquires ethical, environmental and procedural thinking and systematic work.
Based on the above, the graduate is able to manage production, logistics, quality and human resources at the level of first-line, middle, but also top management. At the same time, is able to establish and run small firms or companies or be a member of the management of larger organizations.
APPLICATION OF THE GRADUATE IN PRACTICE
Occupation indication
Graduate of the study program Industrial Management, resp. its modules:
- is ready to apply flexibly on the labor market,
- according to the system of professions (on Sustavapovolani.sk and https://www.kvalifikacie.sk/kartoteka-kariet-kvalifikacii#/) he can apply for a specific job positions such as: Production Manager, Manager in Engineering Production, Engineering Production Management Specialist, Manager in Enterprise Logistics, Quality Manager, Engineering Specialist in the Field of Quality, Ergonomics Specialist, Control Manager, Auditor, Chief Accountant, Specialist Accountant, Specialist in Payroll Accounting, Chief Project Manager, Project Manager, Project Specialist, Process Specialist in Engineering Production, Strategy Manager, Procurement Manager, Recruitment and Selection Manager, Manager for Training and Development of Employees, Career Counselor, Human Resources Manager, Personnel Director, Personnel Administration and Employee Relations Manager,
- is prepared to pursue a third-year university degree and, with the gained knowledge and abilities, can proceed directly to the PhD study program in Industrial Management.
Employment of graduates with specific employers
In its 69-year history, the study program Industrial Management, which is a continuation of the study programs Economics and Management of Mechanical Engineering, Management Enterprises, Industrial Personnel Work in an Industrial Enterprise, and Production Quality Engineering, has produced a number of successful graduates who have found their employment in the commercial and also in the academic sphere.
For example, in the commercial area, the following graduates can be mentioned: Ing. Ľuboš Lopatka, PhD. (1984) - MH Management (General Director); Ing. Andrej Juris (1988) - Office for Regulation Network industries (chairman); Ing. Juraj Janáč (1991) - Volkswagen Slovakia (Head of logistics), Ing. Miroslav Daniš (1995) - ZF Boge Elastmetall Slovakia (Technical Director) Ing. Martin Dzama (1998) - Stellantis (General Manager); Ing. Jana Bogyóová (1998) - Reydel Automotive Slovakia (Director), Ing. Andrea Vaňová (2000) - Gotec Slovakia (Quality Manager); Ing. Branislav Horváth (2002) - AC Group (Senior Injection Molding Engineer), Ing. Kristína Šmída (2003) - Autocont (HR Director), Ing. Martina Jakábová, PhD. (2003) - Vision Consulting (Project Manager); Ing. Yulia Šurinová, PhD. (2006) - Sky Medical (Plant Manager); Rastislav Beňo, PhD. (2008) - Stellantis Trnava (Head Ergonomist); Ing. Viktória Talnagiová, PhD. (2009) - 0sram (Controlling Manager) Ing. Veronika Beluská, PhD. (2011) - Honeywell (Project Planning and Control Analyst), Ing. Jaroslav Patka (2012) - Schaeffler Slovakia (Genmeral Manager); Ing. Marián Hodulík (2012) - Volkswagen (Logistik Manager); Ing. Lenka Púčiková (2012) - Faurecia (Product Manager); Ing. Tomáš Podhradský (2013) - Edymax (Project Manager); Ing. Matej Daňo, PhD. (2013) - LEONI (Product Section Manager); Ing. Lenka Lörincziová (2017) - Kongsberg Automotive (Processing Engineer).
Graduates have had a lot of success in academics and research; we can name a few examples: prof. Ing. Jozef Sablik, CSc. (1967) - Faculty of Materials Technology STU (Dean); prof. Ing. Miloš Čambál, CSc. (1988) - Faculty of Materials Technology STU (Dean); doc. Ing. František Horňák (1992) - STU (prorektor); doc. Ing. Andrea Chlpeková (1992) - Faculty of Materials Technology STU ((Head of Institute); prof. Ing. Ján Závadský, Ph.D. (1999) - UMB Banská Bystrica (Internal Quality System Manager)
Relevant stakeholders: This is not the case for regulated professions.
Guarantor: prof. Ing. Miloš Čambál, CSc., milos.cambal@stuba.sk
Study Advisor: doc. Ing. Dagmar Babčanová, PhD., dagmar.babcanova@stuba.sk
