LOS INGENIEROS INDUSTRIALES Y EL MEDIO AMBIENTE: GUIA DE ECORRESPONSABILIDAD Y DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE

Abstract

Industrial engineers, with a wide technological and scientific knowledge, are mainly focus on problem resolution. The importance that the decisions of our experts have about environmental problems makes our collective indispensable for designing and implementing any strategy related to Environmental Excellence and Sustainable Development. The Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Industriales de la Región de Murcia (COIIRM), aware of the implications of Industrial Engineers in these issues, has developed a Guide for our collective which contains the different aspects related to sustainable development and industrial engineering. With this Guide we pretend to place Industrial Engineers from Murcia as leaders in environmental issues, promoting specific solutions for sustainable development and their implementation. In order to reach this objective, we propose some basic principles which must lead industrial engineering actions to the achievement of a sustainable development, being able to satisfy the needs in the present without putting the future needs at risk. 10 Basic Ideas from Industrial Engineering in Murcia in order to reach a Sustainable Development: 1. Assignment: To work in order to improve the quality of the environment. 2. Attitude: Personal commitment with our region, thinking beyond our locality and immediate future. 3. Attitude: To innovate and to be creative. 4. Attitude: To find out well-balanced solutions. 5. Ability: To guarantee that we perfectly know our environmental needs and lacks. 6. Ability: To schedule and to manage in an efficient way. 7. Ability: To adopt a complete approach. 8. Professional Attitude: To improve day by day our professional and educational training. 9. Public communication: To promote the comprehension of environmental problems. 10. Attitude: To act in order to behaviour codes. The full document can be downloaded in the web: http://www.coiirm.es/files/varios/guia_coiirm.pdf Keywords: Industrial Engineer, Environment, Eco-Responsibility, Guide, Basic Idea