Towards the Definition of a Global Logistics Engineer: Procedure to Establish an International Curriculum in Engineering Education

Universities are revealed as one of the main agents to foster international mobility experiences as they are responsible for establishing the curricular itinerary of the different University careers. However, nowadays there is not still a common definition and establishment of engineer's profiles to be globally identified. This is essential in the case of Logistics Engineers because of the strategic importance of Logistics in many environments for the development of a country. The objective of this paper is to define a procedure to establish a generic logistics engineer profile at a global level. This procedure comprises three phases: (i) comparison of different training procedures of logistics in several countries; (ii) determine the practical experiences an engineer should acquire in different environments at three levels: basic knowledge, knowledge that defines profile, and specialization; and (iii) complementary education that enriches the knowledge acquired in origin. This procedure can be applied with minor changes to other engineering disciplines. The research carried out to define the logistics engineer profile includes the opinions of logistics enterprises, technological centers, and the authors' expertise in the area.