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Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering is concerned with system design and operation. All systems must relate to people, equipment, and materials. These resources are valuable and should be used efficiently. Industrial engineers analyze and design systems to ensure efficiency, quality, safety, and economic feasiblity. To enable the integration of such complex systems, industrial engineers are trained in areas beyond those taught in other engineering disciplines. These areas include: economics of the system, human interface and mangement of the system, and planning and control of operations.

Areas Industrial Engineers Work

Industrial engineers are involved in all aspects of manufacturing and service industries. Their jobs might include scheduling, forecasting, warehousing, production and inventory control, value analysis, facilities planning, or consulting. The following are some industrial engineering fields:
  • Management Engineer in Health Care
  • Quality Engineer
  • Scheduling, Forecasting
  • Manufacturing System Engineer
  • Process Design
  • Warehouse, Shipping, Receiving
  • Facilities Planning, Design, Layout
  • Production and Inventory Control
  • Value Analysis
  • Human Productivity
  • Work Measurement, Standards, Performance Measures
  • Incentive Plans
  • Organization Administration (Human Resources)
  • Environment Protection
  • Computer Operations, Systems, Software
  • Consulting
         Engineering
         Software
         Management

Where Our Industrial Engineers Are Today

Listed below are the placement statistics for industrial engineering graduates from Louisiana Tech.

Industries IE Graduates Work In
  • Manufacturing 46%
  • Electronics / Computers 14%
  • Health Care / Biotech / Enviromental 11%
  • Automotive 9%
  • Consulting 7%
  • Utilities 5%
  • Education 1%
  • Grad School 1%
  • Others 6%

Places TECH IE Graduates Live
  • USA 94%
  • Outside 6%

Within the US
  • South 87%
  • West 3%
  • East Coast 5%
  • Midwest 4% Other
  • USA 1%
Within the South
  • Louisiana 45%
  • Texas 30%
  • Arkansas 15%
  • Mississippi 10%
Top 5 Employers of TECH IE Graduates
  • General Motors Corporation
  • IBM Texas
  • Instruments, lnc
  • The Boeing Company
  • Hitachi Semiconductors

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