Industrial Engineering Student Competency Mediation Model: Analysis from the Perspective of Educational Psychology

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 (MeanAge = 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.