Volume 1 , Issue 1

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IE graduates have careers that take them all over the world and allow them to do all sorts of different things . Like many other areas of engineering , the job outlook for industrial engineers compared to the rest of the workforce is positive . According to the University of Chicago study , the occupation “ Industrial Engineer ” was in the top 10 of those with the happiest people . Depending on their tasks , Industrial Engineers work both in offices and in the settings they are trying to improve . For example when observing problems , they may watch workers on a factory floor or staff in a hospital and they may be in office at a computer looking at data they or others have collected .

Industrial Engineering functional work areas and the expected involvements ( in different organizations / industries ) are :

Production Control Facilities Factory Operations Transportation