Industrial Technology and Packaging (BS)
Program Overview
Industrial Technology and Packaging (BS)
The Industrial Technology and Packaging (ITP) major blends business, design, science, and technology to prepare students for the development of innovative, sustainable products and packaging systems, and the efficient supply chains needed to bring them to market.
Program Overview
Graduates are well-positioned for diverse and high-demand roles, including packaging engineer, structural designer, product developer, industrial engineer, supply chain specialist, manufacturing engineer, quality engineer, operations engineer, and business analyst.
Curriculum
The ITP curriculum spans a wide array of interdisciplinary subjects, such as user-centered design, design thinking, sustainability, entrepreneurship, marketing, project management, advanced manufacturing systems, materials science, supply chain and operations management, distribution and logistics, lean processes, Lean Six Sigma, technical sales, business analytics, program management, and procurement.
Concentrations
Students select from two concentrations aligned with current industry needs:
- Industrial Technology
- Packaging
Industrial Technology
The Industrial Technology Concentration offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary curriculum focused on product development, manufacturing technology, and the challenges of supply chain and operations management.
Packaging
Packaging has evolved from a purely logistical or materials-based function into a dynamic, strategic discipline central to value creation in modern business. The Packaging Concentration offers a comprehensive exploration of the entire packaging value chain, integrating key elements of business, design, engineering, materials science, and technology.
Program Learning Objectives
- Apply knowledge and skills to identify opportunities and solve problems related to packaging systems, product development, and supply chain management.
- Use appropriate methods and current technology to analyze data and drive decisions related to packaging systems, product development, and supply chain management.
- Evaluate the implications of business, design, science, and technology decisions on society.
- Recognize the ethical consequences of business, design, science, and technology decisions.
- Apply sustainability principles to packaging systems, product development, and supply chain management.
- Demonstrate effective visual communication skills.
- Demonstrate effective written communication skills.
- Demonstrate effective oral communication skills.
- Demonstrate effective participation in teams.
Concentration Learning Objectives
Industrial Technology
- Apply knowledge and skills to identify opportunities and solve problems related to product development and supply chain management.
- Use appropriate methods and current technology to analyze data and drive decisions related to product development and supply chain management.
- Evaluate the implications of business, design, science, and technology decisions on society.
- Recognize the ethical consequences of business, design, science, and technology decisions.
- Apply sustainability principles to product development and supply chain management.
- Demonstrate effective visual communication skills.
- Demonstrate effective written communication skills.
- Demonstrate effective oral communication skills.
- Demonstrate effective participation in teams.
Packaging
- Apply knowledge and skills to identify opportunities and solve problems related to packaging systems and supply chain management.
- Use appropriate methods and current technology to analyze data and drive decisions related to packaging systems and supply chain management.
- Evaluate the implications of business, design, science, and technology decisions on society.
- Recognize the ethical consequences of business, design, science, and technology decisions.
- Apply sustainability principles to packaging systems and supply chain management.
- Demonstrate effective visual communication skills.
- Demonstrate effective written communication skills.
- Demonstrate effective oral communication skills.
- Demonstrate effective participation in teams.
Degree Requirements and Curriculum
In addition to the program requirements, students must also satisfy requirements outlined in more detail in the Minimum Requirements for Graduation section, including:
- 40 units of upper-division courses
- 2.0 GPA
- Graduation Writing Requirement (GWR)
- U.S. Cultural Pluralism (USCP)
Course List
- ITP 1100: Student Orientation, College Success, and Career Readiness
- ITP 1125: Introduction to Industrial Technology and Packaging
- ITP 1150: Power Systems and Renewable Energy
- ITP 2233: Product Modeling and Communication
- ITP 3303: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
- ITP 3326: Product Design and Development
- ITP 3330: Packaging Fundamentals
- ITP 3341: Packaging Polymers and Processing
- ITP 3371: Supply Chain Management in Manufacturing and Services
- ITP 4409: Packaging Machinery and Processes
- ITP 4411: Packaging Sustainability
- ITP 4464: Senior Project
Concentration Courses
Industrial Technology
- ITP 2260: Materials and Manufacturing Technology
- ITP 3390: Industrial Automation
- ITP 4403: Lean and Quality Systems Management
- ITP 4410: Operations Planning and Control
- ITP 4415: Supply Chain and Logistics
- ITP 4428: Commercialization of Innovation
- ITP 4496: Product Development and Manufacturing I
- ITP 4497: Product Development and Manufacturing II
Packaging
- ITP 2234: Packaging Design Fundamentals
- ITP 2241: Industrial and Packaging Materials
- ITP 3334: Structural Packaging Design
- ITP 4408: Fiber-Based Packaging
- ITP 4430: Healthcare Packaging
- ITP 4475: Distribution Packaging Dynamics
- ITP 4498: Packaging Development
General Education (GE) Requirements
- 43 units required, 13 of which are specified in Major and/or Support.
- If any of the remaining 30 Units is used to satisfy a Major or Support requirement, additional units of Free Electives may be needed to complete the total units required for the degree.
- See the complete GE course listing.
- A grade of C- or better is required in one course in each of the following GE Areas: 1A (English Composition), 1B (Critical Thinking), 1C (Oral Communication), and 2 (Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning).
Lower-Division General Education
- Area 1: English Communication and Critical Thinking
- 1A: Written Communication
- 1B: Critical Thinking
- 1C: Oral Communication
- Area 2: Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning
- 2: Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning
- Area 3: Arts and Humanities
- 3A: Arts
- 3B: Humanities: Literature, Philosophy, Languages other than English
- Area 4: Social and Behavioral Sciences
- 4A: American Institutions
- 4B: Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Area 5: Physical and Life Sciences
- 5A: Physical Sciences
- 5B: Life Sciences
- 5C: Laboratory
- Area 6: Ethnic Studies
- 6: Ethnic Studies
Upper-Division General Education
- Upper-Division 2/5: Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning or Physical and Life Sciences
- Upper-Division 3: Arts and Humanities
- Upper-Division 4: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Total Units
- Total Units: 120