Student learning thru multidisciplinary teams in designing standard process

© 2018 Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). All rights reserved. Tecnológico de Monterrey has an educational model named ¿Tec21¿. Within of this educational model there exists ¿Semana i¿ which consists in that all students of Tecnológico Monterrey system work a whole week in solving real problems inside of companies and organizations. The event ¿Semana i¿ occurs during a week of September. This year a national organization requested to do a standardized process for remodeling and equipping of retail stores. For this project, 105 students from different disciplines were involved in a process of consulting for this organization. The students worked 8 hours daily from Monday to Friday with the challenge of solving a real problem for a company. These students are from several campuses of Tecnológico de Monterrey which are located in six different cities. The standardized process for remodeling and equipping of retail stores was proposed to managers the last day in the afternoon. This paper describes the activities that the students have performed in these 5 days in each campus: a diagnosis of the current situation of the process in each city, presentation of the results of all the cities and the design of the process standardized to a level national.

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