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Industrial engineering involves decision-making related to the best use of people, material, equipment and energy to achieve the goals of an organization. The organization may be a manufacturing facility, hospital, bank, amusement park, airline, government office, or any other group organized to make a product or perform a service. Industrial engineers make significant contributions to their employers by saving money while making the workplace better for fellow workers.
If there is one phrase that summarizes the activities of industrial engineers, it is "the search for a better way." For example, a better way to make workplaces more comfortable and safer by improving workstations and work procedures, a better way to perform assembly operations using robots and machine vision systems, a better way to assure product quality by statistical process control techniques, a better way to improve the efficiency of the entire organization by implementing Lean-Six Sigma technologies, and so on.
Manufacturing firms and service industries hire a significant number of industrial engineers. Today, more and more businesses hire industrial engineers in areas like computer information systems, business operation, finance, and sales and marketing. Corporations as diverse as Coca Cola, UPS, Disney, IBM, Entergy, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, and Boeing all use people with industrial engineering backgrounds to help manage their business. Many industrial engineers enter the workforce as engineers but eventually move up to the upper level of management.
The industrial engineering curriculum has been developed to prepare students for meaningful careers in this challenging and important branch of engineering. The success of the program is evidenced by the high demand for its graduates in all sectors of the economy and the many professional accomplishments of the faculty.
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
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