B.S. in Innovation and Development Engineering
Transform your vision, expand your design and creativity
Career field
Thanks to the integral preparation you will receive in B.S. in Innovation and Development, on graduating you will be able to work in diverse settings, such as:
- Innovation-oriented firms
- Creation and development of new technology-based products and services
- Design of new business models for technology-based companies
- Interdisciplinary and technology-transfer innovation projects
- Research centers and consulting, where you will be able to apply what you have learned in innovation degree to help different companies.
Is this right for you?
If you want to change the world through innovative initiatives that generate economic, social and environmental value, then B.S. in Innovation and Development is for you.
The Bachelor in Innovation and Development Engineering is a professional who systematically identifies innovation opportunities and creates comprehensive, innovative and sustainable technology-based solutions in emerging fields of engineering. He or she masters systemic and cutting-edge innovation methodologies and, with an interdisciplinary approach, and consistently creates new ways of creating value for the organizations and environments in which he or she participates. He or she has the ability to conduct technology transfer processes, and to manage technological innovation portfolios, programs and projects in accordance with the organizational strategy.
Competencies
- Identify innovation opportunities through the systematic questioning of the ways of creating value.
- Create technology-based solutions using systemic and interdisciplinary innovation methodologies.
- Develop innovation ecosystems by creating synergy between the value chain processes and resources.
- Design new technology-based business models using state-of-the-art analytical and methodological tools.
- Manage technology-transfer processes applying the best methodologies and practices.
- Manage innovation portfolios, programs and project in keeping with the organizational strategy.
Entry profile
Tecnológico de Monterrey is looking for a new generation of students that have finished their high school studies and are talented, enthusiastic individuals, who are committed to the development of their environment and the wellbeing of society; people who have the potential to study an undergraduate program and become leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit, humanistic sense and competitive on an international stage.
Entry requirements: High school or equivalent.
The three stages of the model
Choose your path
Exploration
- You will open your competency file and add to it throughout your degree program.
- You will learn the foundations of the area of Engineering - Innovation and Transformation.
- You will participate in fundamental and exploration challenges from the area of Creative Studies, interacting with peers from different degree programs.
- You will study general education courses, selecting them from a collection.
- You will participate in a challenge that integrates all the competencies to be developed in this phase.
Focus
- You will acquire the core competencies of your degree, in other words, those that distinguish it.
- You will participate in more focused challenges to reinforce what you have learned and broaden your basic knowledge.
- You will have the elements to decide whether to deepen your knowledge or diversify and, subsequently, build your specialization plan.
- The Tec Weeks, challenges and overall university experiences will enrich your file.
Specialization
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You have decided between diversifying or focusing deeply in your major, which you will achieve by choosing a concentration or a stay, to name a few of your options. The TEC Semester is a flexible time to start.
- You will develop the competencies related to your specialization, increasingly connected to your passions, interests and plans.
- By passing a concentration, you will develop your competencies, and, on graduating, will be a candidate for obtaining a Diploma in that concentration, after meeting the established requirements.
How can you specialize?
Concentrations
Specialize in one of the different concentrations available at the campus of your choice, according to the profile you would like to develop.
Internships
Internships allow you to participate in the development of specific projects with companies, organizations, or research groups, in a context of total immersion related to a specialty field. They can be carried out locally, nationally or internationally.
International experiences
Experience life outside Mexico to broaden your horizons and delve into the topics of your interest.
Courses or blocks
Choose the education units that best adapt to your objectives, enabling you to specialize in your specific interests.
Concentrations
Disciplinary
Delve into your field of study
- Advanced Artificial Intelligence for Data Science
- Aeronautics Engineering
- Arts and Tech Incubator
- Automotive Engineering
- Biomechanics and Sports Engineering
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Cybersecurity
- Digital Mindset for Start Ups
- Entrepreneurship in the Creative and Cultural Industries
- Open Innovation and Technology Transfer
- Operational Evolution for Industry
- Real State Intelligence
- Systems and Technologies 4.0
- Technology-Based Design and Futures
- Video Game Design
Transversal
Delve into other fields of study
- Conscious Business
- Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Tools
- Design, Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Families, Sustainability and Transcendence
- Entrepreneurship in Action
- Financial Vision for Decision-Making
- Government and Public Transformation
- Mexican Culture
- Quality of Life and Well-Being
- Social Innovation
*These concentraciones are not the definitive offer and their availability varies by campus.
General education course
Area exploration courses
Introductory block (CHALLENGE)
Area exploration block (CHALLENGE)
Exploration topic (CHALLENGE)
Track integrating block (CHALLENGE)
Disciplinary course
Disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
Integrating disciplinary block (CHALLENGE)
TEC Semester
Multidisciplinary professional elective (CHALLENGE)
Final integrating block (CHALLENGE)
| IID |
| Sexto Semestral |
| Strategic Management of Technological Innovation |
| Séptimo Semestral |
| Professional Elective I |
| Professional Elective II |
| Professional Elective III |
| Professional Elective IV |
| Professional Elective V |
| Professional Elective VI |
| Octavo Semestral |
| Development of an Innovation Integrator Project |
| Elective Multidisciplinary Professional |
Related programs
IMD - B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
IE - B.S. in Electronics Engineering
IMT - B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering
IIS - B.S. in Industrial Engineering with minor in Systems Engineering