Practice-Based Education in Engineering Addressing Real-business Problems amid the Covid-19 Crisis

© 2021 ACM.This qualitative research uses the content analysis of written reports that account for the solution of problematic situations that occurred in small and medium-sized companies in Mexico. The real-world problems addressed by students of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Tecnologico de Monterrey arose from the new reality imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, whose fingerprint is the high degree of uncertainty in the social and economic fields. The analysis presented here shows the level of integration of the categories of content learning, social learning, and learning itself, under the practice-based education approach. The success detected in the development of the various projects is due to the social interactions that the students have with the company's training partner, as well as the interaction they have with the teacher in the conceptual and procedural development of specific disciplinary content. In other words, in the transgression of school and workspaces. Correctly, discrete event simulation tools were used for decision making. In this way, the projects studied in this report evaluate and propose alternative solutions that conclude in recommendations with a mathematical simulation basis for companies to solve, to a certain extent, the impact suffered for the pandemic.

Practice-Based Education in Engineering Addressing Real-business Problems amid the Covid-19 Crisis Academic Article in Scopus