About study programme
The study program is based on a systemic, integrated concept of managing industrial activities and processes in market economy conditions. As a balanced interconnection of knowledge of industrial economics and management, advanced quality management and intelligent control systems with technical and technological knowledge, the study program is oriented mainly to production systems of the metallurgical, chemical and engineering industries.
Graduate's employment
Management of industrial business activities at strategic and tactical levels, including employment in design and research institutions. Top managers of industrial enterprises, management representatives for technical and economic areas of industrial business, quality management systems and integrated management systems, information systems and technologies. Engineers and specialists in technical, economics, marketing, quality management departments, third party conformity assessment bodies, departments related to modernization of automation-based technological and manufacturing processes, creation and use of computer networks, implementation and management of enterprise management and information systems.
Study aims
The aim of the study program is to equip students with a balanced knowledge of the principles, approaches, methods and tools of the industrial management economics, the theory and methodology of integrated industrial management with technical and technological knowledge. The study is focused mainly on production systems of the metallurgical, chemical and engineering industries. The program covers the fields of economics and management of industrial systems, advanced quality management and intelligent control systems in industry.
Graduate's knowledge
- Management and managerial decision making while respecting the economic, technical and organizational and logistics specifics of metallurgical, chemical and engineering production. Reflection of integrated management theories, approaches and methods in real management processes.
- Managerial economics and its technical and technological specifics in industrial systems. Advanced tools of economic diagnostics of industrial business entities.
- Concepts, methods and tools of modern quality management and their application in production and non-production spheres. Special statistical methods of quality management. Advanced procedures for planning and improving quality and their application in various industries.
- Principles and procedures for integrating management theories, concepts and systems. Development and application of models of excellence in industrial organizations.
- Modelling and simulation of dynamic systems. Theory of optimal control and automation of technological processes. Projection and programming of information systems.
Graduate's skills
- Designing an industrial business and supply chain strategy. Management of the property and capital structure of a business entity. Innovation management. Evaluation, improvement and design of business processes in industrial sectors.
- Implementation and maintenance of quality management systems and integrated management systems. Application of system approach to solving problems in the field of products and processes quality. Application of statistical methods. Evaluation of maturity of industrial organization management systems.
- Creative solutions to individual elements of control systems and their integration. Analysis, design and implementation of automatic regulation of technological processes using modern methodologies, measuring, control and computer systems.
- Forming and managing the work team. Argumentative evaluation of team work results.
- Pedagogical work on the basis of professional knowledge and generalized experience of the graduate.
Graduate's general competence
- The ability of independent scientific research and independent creative activity in the field of industrial systems management.
- Ability to design and use advanced research practices in a way to extend the current state of knowledge - at all levels of management of an industrial business entity.
- Self-decision-making ability in the business sphere - with a view to working in a competitive environment of the globalized economy.
- Ability to understand and convincingly present their own economic and managerial skills and solving problem practices to other members of the scientific community at international level (at least in one world language) and the general public.