Program Overview

Bachelor of Industrial Engineering Technology

The Faculty of Engineering Technology and Science mission is to provide world-class engineering programs empowering graduates with the desire for learning, discovery, and innovation, and provide highly competent technologists and engineers to meet present and future industry needs nationally and globally.

Program Description

The Bachelor of Industrial Engineering Technology provides an excellent broad-based education with multidisciplinary specializations to cater for the global UAE industry. Industrial engineers focus on the safety, efficiency, and productivity at a manufacturing plant or business. They come up with ways to improve procedures and help establish standards for production and procedure. The HCT Industrial Engineering Technology program aims to produce high-quality engineers with qualities of productivity, timeliness, dedication, and competence in the workplace.

Program Goals

The Program Educational Objectives of the Bachelor of Industrial Engineering Technology program at HCT are to produce graduates who will:

1. Integrate their attained knowledge and skills with their job expertise to identify and solve problems, and to optimize the interactions among elements of the systems within their area of practice to enhance safety, quality, and productivity.
2. Practice their roles in serving their organizations and community with firm commitment to social values and professional ethics.
3. Continue to improve their personal and professional abilities through self and administrated learning and training related to their job functions for continual professional growth.
4. Serve as future team leaders with effective professional communication and technical skills and contribute actively to achieving Abu Dhabi Vision 2030.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon graduation, a HCT graduate in Bachelor of Industrial Engineering Technology should demonstrate:

1. An ability to apply knowledge, techniques, skills, and modern tools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to solve broadly-defined engineering problems appropriate to Industrial Engineering Technology.
2. An ability to design systems, components, or processes meeting specified needs for broadly-defined engineering problems appropriate to the Industrial Engineering Technology.
3. An ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communication in broadly defined technical and non-technical environments; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature.
4. An ability to conduct standard tests, measurements, and experiments and to analyze and interpret the results to improve processes.
5. An ability to function effectively as a member as well as a leader on technical teams.
6. An ability to develop and evaluate a business plan to transform an engineering design (systems, products, services, and solutions) into a business opportunity utilizing entrepreneurial skills and knowledge.

Employment Prospects

Employment prospects for HCT Engineering Technology and Science graduates are very strong and cover many local and international industrial sectors, including:

• Aviation
• Computing
• Construction
• Consulting
• Defense
• Energy
• Governance
• Healthcare
• Infrastructure support and maintenance
• Manufacturing
• Oil and gas
• Telecommunications

Curriculum and Study Plan

The program curriculum stresses the effective use of technology, information resources, and engineering tools. Students are trained to use state-of-the-art software packages necessary to facilitate their efforts to optimize, statistically analyze, and simulate existing systems, and to test and validate potential gains attainable from improving the system. In addition, the program instills leadership qualities based on moral and ethical principles coupled with sound and rational judgment. Students are eligible for a one-year Work Experiential Learning experience during their study.