Industrial Engineering
#2 Undergraduate Program in the U.S.
U.S. News and World Report 2024
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LOCATION: WEST LAFAYETTE AND INDIANAPOLIS
Industrial engineers design, analyze and manage complex human-integrated systems such as manufacturing systems, supply chain networks and service systems. These systems typically consist of a combination of people, information, material and equipment. In such systems industrial engineers determine how to optimize the system for maximum efficiency effectiveness, safety, or some objective of interest to the stakeholders of the system.
An industrial engineer draws upon knowledge of mathematics, along with physics, engineering, management and behavioral sciences to function as a problem-solver, innovator, designer, coordinator and system integrator. Industrial engineers apply their skills in an extremely wide range of organizations, including manufacturing industries, service industries and governmental agencies.
Contact Info:
ieugo@purdue.edu
within 6 months of graduation
in industry or graduate school
recommended minors to supplement Industrial engineering
Management
Economics
