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Your Career as an Industrial Engineer
IE's are Really "Engineers Plus"
Like other engineering fields, including aeronautical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, nuclear or petroleum, industrial engineering is concerned with solving problems through application of scientific and practical knowledge. But the IE differs from other engineers because he or she uses knowledge in a wider variety of applications.
The industrial engineering also applies problem-solving techniques in almost every kind of organization imaginable. There are IE's in banks, hospitals, government at all levels, transportation, construction, processing, social service, electronics, facilities design, manufacturing and warehousing. Hundreds of thousands of IE's are engaged in these and other activities worldwide.
Productivity-What It's All About
No challenge to a young women or man can be greater than improving productivity - the applications of knowledge and skills to provide improved goods and services to enhance the quality of life, both on and off the job.
This must be done without waste of physical and human resources while maintaining the environmental balance. To continue to satisfy the needs and desires of mankind, the rate of productivity improvement must be greater than the increases of cost. Failure to accomplish this in recent years has contributed to inflation, recession and worldwide unrest.
IE's are Productivity Catalysts
Industrial engineers are the "productivity people" who must provide leadership and integrate technology. they include the human factor in finding workable, effective solutions to production problems while retaining high standards of quality.
Want to join the engineering profession which is "people oriented"? Then by all means, become an IE!
* Taken from the brochure Planning Your Career as an IE/The People-Oriented Engineering Profession brochure produced by Institute of Industrial Engineers.
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