WHY YOU SHOULD HIRE AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER?

"Industrial engineers determine the most effective ways to use the basic factors of production—people, machines, materials, information, and energy—to make a product or provide a service"

                                                           Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010

To survive in today’s highly competitive world, industries and business organisations need managers and decision-makers who can apply mathematical concepts and scientific management techniques to resolve technical issues in a cost-effective way. The industrial engineering field has extensively been documented as a major source of management talent. An industrial engineer along with understanding these problems, is able to devise and carry out methods to solve them.  

How They Do IT?

Industrial engineers focus on increasing quality and productivity through:

• The management of people
• Methods of business organization, and
• Technology. 

To increase efficiency and effectiveness, industrial engineers carefully study the requirements of product/service and then to meet those requirements they design manufacturing and information systems with the help of mathematical methods and models. 
They develop control systems such as management control systems to support financial planning and cost analysis, and production planning and control systems to coordinate activities and ensure quality of product. 
They deal with developing or improving the physical distribution systems to provide goods and services to final destinations. They also determine the most efficient plant locations, develop wage and salary administration systems and job evaluation programs. 

They Are Versatile..

Industrial engineers increase efficiency keeping in mind the cost control factors. therefore they are also useful for most industries including nonprofits. 
They are not as specialized as other engineers, hence they are employed in a wide range of other industries, including  hospitals, consulting and engineering services, and research & development firms. 

They are versatile because their expertise focuses on reducing internal costs, making their work valuable for many industries. For example, growth in healthcare and finding ways to deliver best care will create demand for industrial engineers. 

Types of Versatile Problems They Can Solve..

• They can find out the optimum inventory levels to be kept in the warehouse, or in the super store

• They can design automated material handling systems for the movement of parts in a factory such as AGV.

• They can integrate information and control between manufacturing systems, automated guided vehicles, automated warehouse facilities, and management personnel by designing computer-integrated manufacturing systems and decision support systems.

• They can provide you optimal scheduling cases to operating rooms in a hospital, or production orders in a factory.

• They can provide you best location analysis whether it is about placing a machine, plant or locating a factory considering the economic and operational perspective. 

• They can design computer-aided process planning (CAPP) systems that accommodate flexibly to vary the sequence of operations to produce a product.

• They can determine the optimal route of ambulances through a city, or material handling vehicles in a factory, to minimize travel time.

• They can develop reliability and quality management systems (QMS) to ensure that a manufactured product is free from defects.

• They study Ergonomics to improve productivity of workers by ensuring work place safety, designing user-friendly computer graphics systems to assist operators in the monitoring and control of industrial processes.

If you want to increase the efficiency of your organisation...Hire an Industrial Engineer! 

Reference: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-17 Edition, Industrial Engineers, 

on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/industrial-engineers.htm

Where IEs Work

Almost every kind of business hires industrial engineers and they work in many different kinds of jobs. These are some of the jobs that IIE members are doing:

• Anheuser-Busch Inc., Manager of Distribution and Logistics
• Bose Corp., Industrial Engineer
• Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc., Business Process Design Manager
• City of Fort Worth, Management Analyst
• City of Kansas City, City Auditor
• Deere & Co., Quality Manager
• Dell, Inc., Project Senior Consultant
• Estee Lauder Inc., Director of Industrial Engineering
• Federal Aviation Administration, Industrial Engineer
• Hasbro, Business Improvement Manager
• Hershey Foods Corp., Director of Manufacturing
• Honda of America Manufacturing, Process Engineer
• Johnson & Johnson, Worldwide Manager of Ergonomics
• Kraft Food, Distribution Design Project Engineer
• Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control, Cost Estimator
• Mayo Clinic, Director of Patient Financial Services
• McDonald’s, Real Estate Manager
• Microsoft, User Experience Manager
• Motorola, Vice President of Supply Chain
• NASA Kennedy Space Center, Spaceport Technology Development Manager
• Naval Surface Warfare Center, Human Systems Integration Engineer
• Nike Inc., Senior Engineer
• Northeastern University, Dean of Engineering
• Payless Shoe Source, Manager of Corporate Quality Assurance
• Sony Disc Manufacturing, Industrial Engineer
• Target Corp., Senior Recruiter
• Texas A&M University, Research Engineer
• Toys R Us, Industrial Engineer
• Wal-Mart, General Manager
• Walt Disney World, Director of Costuming & Cosmetology

Computers & Industrial Engineering

Industrial engineering is one of the earliest fields to utilize computers in research, education, and practice. Over the years, computers and electronic communication have become an integral part of industrial engineering.

The journal aims at an audience of researchers, educators and practitioners of industrial engineering and associated fields. It publishes original contributions to the development of new computerized methodologies for solving industrial engineering problems, and applications of these methodologies to problems of interest to the broad industrial engineering and associated communities. It encourages submissions that expand the frontiers of the fundamental theories and concepts underlying industrial engineering techniques. It also serves as a venue for articles evaluating the state of the art of computer applications in various industrial engineering and related topics, and research in the utilization of computers in industrial engineering education. Papers reporting on applications of industrial engineering techniques to real life problems are welcome, as long as they satisfy the criteria of originality in the choice of the problem and the tools utilized to solve it, generality of the approach for applicability to other problems, and significance of the results produced. A major aim of the journal is to foster international exchange of ideas and experiences among scholars and practitioners with shared interests all over the world.

Industrial Engineers (UMT)

The Department of Industrial Engineering has been recently established at UMT. Industrial Engineering is committed to preparing the next generation of leaders who are technically adept and globally aware. These students will truly be Industrial Engineers. Becoming an Industrial Engineer is an exciting journey that begins with undergraduate study and requires a commitment to lifelong learning and professional development.
Industrial Engineering graduates share a distinct set of attributes. World-class industrial engineers are:

• Aware of the World - Industrial Engineers are aware of the global nature of their profession, and the challenges and opportunities that it brings; they are sensitive to the cultural differences and the diversity that exists within individual cultures.
• Solidly Grounded - Industrial Engineers are solidly grounded in the fundamentals of their discipline. There solid foundation allows them to tackle complex, real-world problems and serves as the ground on which they build their knowledge and expertise through lifelong learning.
• Technically Broad - Industrial Engineers are conversant with other engineering and scientific disciplines related to their field, allowing them to work on problems that are cross-disciplinary.
• Versatile - Industrial Engineers are capable of learning new skills as they grow in their careers and of applying their engineering problem-solving skills in non-traditional fields such as financial services, healthcare, and education.
• Effective in Team Operations - Industrial Engineers are highly productive members of teams, co-located or geographically dispersed; they communicate effectively within and outside the team.
• Effective in Leadership Positions - Industrial Engineers are effective leaders at all levels, from technical team leader to CEO.
• Presently the Department of Industrial Engineering is offering Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (BSIE) and there are plans for further education leading to MS and PhD.