Evaluate reliability and quality performance. Implement office systems, procedures, and policies. Analyze complex business problems through operations research. Conduct long-range organization plans, plant location surveys, and systems studies. Study potential markets for goods and services, raw materials sources, and energy sources.
Industrial engineering is spread across nearly all kinds of manufacturing.
Recent data show that employment offers are especially plentiful in automotive, electronic equipment, management consulting, is in the services sector of the economy - banking, transportation, distribution services, and government. Service business have not shown the same productivity growth in recent years that manufacturing has, so may firms are now seeking to apply lessons learned in manufacturing to non-manufacturing enterprises. Studies in Industrial Engineering includes fundamentals of basic and applied sciences, statistics, and mathematics. To learn about interactions of engineering decisions with society's needs, students take courses in economics, business, humanities, and social sciences. More specialized studies include courses in human performance, manufacturing processes, operation control, information processing, decision analysis, mathematical modeling, and management systems.