Abstract:

Life and career planning and long view perspective is a culture that universities want to promote in young students, in order to develop competences aligned to their goals and personal vision. Students enrolls in one academic program with doubts, during the transition from high school to university, and the drop out index and changes between programs or even universities, shows us to be special concern to help them to find their passion ( Ishitani, 2016; Kulli , et al 2015). The objective is to study the impact of using industrial engineering challenges and active learning in one curricula course with two cohorts at a Mexican University. The sample is about 400 IE students (200 in august 2017 and 200 during august 2018), using a survey, & evaluating the challenges and their life and career planning. The methodology has three phases: Design of the IE Challenges using active learning and teamwork, Implementation of the challenges with two generations, and the evaluation phase ( using surveys and their LCP) . The methodology involves : ex alumni to share their experience, tutoring sessions, and companies experience. Understanding what is IE, how to apply it, what kind of work could do in the future and what can I do to achieve personal and professional goals are the expected results of the experience that allows to define and achieve their personal and professional goals.

Keywords:

First Year Experiencie, Industrial Engineering, Active Learning, IE Challenges.