Industrial Engineering
Overview
Industrial Engineering challenges you to improve, design, manage, evaluate, and test production systems. You’ll be looking at the how’s of the economy; this means looking at how a product is made or a service is given, and your ultimate goal is to improve the quality of those products and services.
Unlike other engineering majors, Industrial Engineering focuses on people. You’ll have classes in ergonomics and human factors and study how people are a part of a production system, of course investigating how they can do work more efficiently, or how a production system can be designed to better serve them.
Although Industrial Engineers originally only dealt with manufacturing, today they have a wider range of options. Food, banking, health care, and commercial aviation are only a few of the sectors that rely on Industrial Engineers to make them more effectively deliver their wares. The skills of Industrial Engineers better countless aspects of our society.
- $55,784 Tuition
- 1370 Avg SAT
- 14,076 Enrolled
- $26,160 Tuition
- 1410 Avg SAT
- 14,408 Enrolled
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SAMPLE CURRICULUM
Ergonomics
Facilities Design
Industrial Practice in Systems Design
Introduction to Simulation
Linear Programming
Musculoskeletal Mechanics
Network Flows
Occupational Biomechanics
Quality Design and Control
Solid Mechanics
Theory of Activity Networks
Work Analysis and Design
Work Physiology and Biomechanics in Work Design
HIGH SCHOOl PREPARATION
GRADUATE PROGRAMS & CAREERS
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