SIUE SOE - Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

While most industrial engineers choose to work in a manufacturing setting, you may choose to apply your industrial engineering skills in a variety of settings. Here are just a few examples;

Management Engineer: As a management engineer in a hospital, you may help doctors and nurses make the best use of their time in treating patients. You may also design procedures for optimum use of medical facilities to help bring the cost of healthcare down.

Ergonomist:As an ergonomist in a television manufacturing plant, you may change the tools workers use to assemble televisions to reduce the risk of repetitive stress injuries.

Operations Analyst: As an operations analyst for an airline, you may design a bar coding system for identifying and transporting passengers' luggage to ensure that it does not get lost.

Quality Engineer: As a quality engineer for a public gas and electric utility company, you may improve customer satisfaction by designing a process to schedule service calls around the availability of the customer.

Whether you choose to apply your skills in a manufacturing or service industry, you will be continually challenged and rewarded by a career in industrial engineering. Other commonly associated titles for industrial engineers include: manufacturing engineer, systems engineer, production engineer, methods engineer, methods analyst, scheduling engineer, and project engineer.