Industrial Engineering Education for Industry 4.0.

Industry 4.0, additive manufacturing, digitalization, and the emergence of the circular economy are changing the face of manufacturing. New pedagogical approaches, including web-based delivery, are changing the face of teaching and learning. The major findings of a survey carried out by the IE3 Erasmus Plus project on the ‘knowledge demand’ identified by companies and the ‘knowledge supply’ in master level programs in Industrial Engineering and Management offered from European Universities are presented. Soft skills, digital abilities and experiential learning based programs are identified as the most sought after requirements of industry which are not satisfactorily addressed by many existing university master programs. An integrated model of competence, already available in literature, is suggested as a reference framework for designing new manufacturing or industrial engineering master programs.