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