Industrial Engineering Student Competency Mediation Model

Analysis from the Perspective of Educational Psychology

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence between the research competences of the context, decision-making and planning in a sample of students of the Industrial Engineering career of a private university in Lima - Peru. In the sample there took part 150 students of the career of Industrial Engineering, 84 men (53.9%) and 66 women (42.8%). The sample were between the 16 to 31 years old (Mean^Age = 19.77, SD = 4.50). The results showed, the three competencies are significantly related and at the same time, they are predicted. Nevertheless, it is identified that the decision-making competence mediates the predictive relationship between the investigations of the context with the planning; in this way, it is understood that future industrial engineers can plan well if they have previously developed the competence of contextual research and decision-making.