Industrial
Engineering
Your Bridge to the Future
What do IE’s Do?
IEs make processes better in the following ways:
 More efficient and more profitable business
practices
 Better customer service and product quality
 Improved efficiency
 Increased ability to do more with less
 Making work safer, faster, easier, and more
rewarding
 Helping companies produce more products quickly
 Making the world safer through better designed
products
 Reducing costs associated with new technologies
Are You An Industrial
Engineering At Heart?
Are you drawn towards:
 People
 Solving problems
 System-level analysis
 Complexity
 Unstructured problems
 Leading diverse groups
Do IE’s Have Impact?
 John Dasburg - CEO Northwest
Airlines
 Michael Eskew - CEO UPS
 Henry Ford - founder of Ford
Motor Company
 Joe Forehand - CEO Accenture
 Lee Iacocca - former CEO
Chrysler
More IE’s with Impact
 Charles O. Holiday - CEO DuPont
 Dick Kovacevich - CEO Wells
Fargo
 Edward Whitacre, Jr., Chairman
and CEO of AT&T
 Yun Jong Yong - CEO Samsung
Electronics
 Mike Duke - President and CEO,
Wal-Mart Stores USA
Even More IE’s With Impact
 Drew Brees - NFL
Quarterback
 Charles Armstrong President of Seattle Mariners
 Tom Landry - Former Dallas
Cowboys Coach
 Maj Gen Robert L. Caslen,
Jr, Deputy Director, War on
Terrorism
How Come I’ve Never Heard
of IE Before?
 Sometimes called systems
engineering or operations
engineering
 First autonomous
department established in
1908. ME started in 1817,
Civil 1835, Electrical 1882.
How Many IE’s Are There?
Employed Engineers, NSF 2000
Aeronatuical
6%
There are 276
accredited ME
Programs
There are only
110 accredited
IE programs
Other
15%
Civil
16%
Sales
7%
Computer
5%
Mechanical
16%
Electrical/
electronics
22%
Industrial
13%
The World Needs More IE’s!
 Currently about 201,000 IE’s
 Projected growth 14-20% between
2006-2016.
 The Department of Labor predicts that
by 2016, the US will need:
 89,000 new Industrial Engineers (up from
71,000) in the 2004 study
 45,000 Electrical Engineers (3-6%)
 114,000 Civil Engineers (14-20%)
 58,000 Mechanical Engineers (3-6%)
 Supply and Demand is working for
IE’s!
Do IE’s Make Any Money?
Median Annual Salary ($'s)
Salary Curves by Experience 2005
120000
100000
80000
60000
Civil
40000
Electrical
20000
Industrial
Aerospace
0
9
14
19
24
29
Years Experience
Source: Career Journal.com
Who Makes the Big Money?
Level of responsibility
In charge of programs so extensive and complex as to
require staff and resources of sizable magnitude
Average total
annual income
$151,237
Makes decisions and recommendations that are recognized
as authoritative and have a far-reaching impact
112,173
Makes decisions and recommendations that are recognized
as authoritative and have an important impact
98,623
Has full technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing,
executing, and coordinating assignments.
85,531
Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of engineering
principles and practices in broad areas of assignments and
related fields.
73,491
plans and conducts work requiring judgment in the
independent evaluation
61,483
Independently evaluates, selects and applies standard
engineering techniques, procedures and criteria
53,243
What Is Industrial
Engineering?
 Operations Research
 Manufacturing
 Systems Engineering
 Process Engineering
 Human Factors
 Quality Control
The inside scoop
 Insights from IE’s working
in different jobs in different
industries.
Operations Research
 Involves mathematical
analysis and optimization
 Finding the best arrangement
of routes for an airline or
delivery organization
 Figuring out how to get all the
thousands of supplies to a
manufacturing plant or army
with the least cost
Manufacturing
 Industrial Engineers are often in
charge of laying out or
redesigning manufacturing lines
and designing manufacturing
processes
 Where should the next factory be
built?
 How can an assembly line be
reconfigured to account for the
next product model?
Systems/Process Engineering
 Industrial Engineers learn how
to analyze the flow of
information, materials and
people through a system to
improve performance
 Analyze how the paperwork flow
for a government program can be
improved
 Model the flow of people through
an emergency room to improve
safety and performance.
Human Factors
 Industrial Engineers study how
people think, move and respond
to input in order to design
systems that work well.
 Ergonomics is the study of people
physical capabilities
 Human Factors emphasizes mental
capabilities
 Human-Systems Design is the
study of how people interact with
mechanical and computer systems.
Quality Control
 Industrial Engineers know how
to use statistical sampling to
analyze the quality of a
product
 Many companies employee IE’s
to measure and track their final
products
 The trend is to improve quality
by improving the design and
manufacturing process, rather
than fixing problems at the end.
IE’s Make Things Better
 Industrial Engineers specialize
in looking at the broader
picture to find the root cause
of problems.
 They often are put in direct
charge of managing and
directing changes that directly
affect worker’s lives.
 They understand how to
integrate people into designs.
What Type of Classes
Do IE’s Take?
 Regular Core
 Design for Manufacturing
 Human Factors/Ergonomics
 Engineering Economics
 Information System Design
 Process Engineering
 Quality Control
 Senior Project
What is Different About IE
Courses?
 Project-heavy
 Lots of reading
 Less emphasis on obscure
mathematics, more
emphasis on application
 Tends towards a business
focus
What Characteristics Do IE’s
Have?
 Friendly, outgoing
 Wide interests
 Often involved in extracurricular activities
 Like to work in teams
 Have a broad, engaged
worldview
 Love learning new things