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Industry
Outlook
Industrial engineering is a dynamic, rapidly-developing, profession
that provides a wide range of career opportunities. Although
industrial engineering principles of practice have been developed
largely over the past three decades, it is already the nation's
second largest engineering profession with an estimated 200,000
practitioners out of the total of 1.1 million engineers in
the United States.
Increasing
complexity and scarcity of resources in industry, service
organizations, and government have led to ever broadening
employment opportunities for industrial engineers. The U.S.
Department of Labor has forecasted approximately 12,000 openings
per year for industrial engineers in the next decade, which
is more than three times the number currently being graduated.
At SIUE, industrial engineering students receive a unique
background that combines science, mathematics, engineering
fundamentals and design, and management principles to provide
a sound basis for life-long career development in professional
practice.
Flexibility
Industrial engineering provides graduates with broad career
flexibility and opportunities in such areas as engineering,
management, research, and consulting. Because industrial engineering
serves a broad cross-section of business, industry and institutions,
the IEs work environment varies from office to plant to field.
Choices can be made even after the IE begins his or her working
career. Few other vocations offer a graduating student such
a wide selection of places to work or kind of work to perform.
As an IE, for example, you may:
- Get
involved in long-range planning and facilities design for
a major transportation facility.
- Become
a leader in the robotics program at a major automotive manufacturer.
- Help
design and install operations systems for a semi-conductor
facility.
- Create
more productive work flow within a major hospital or other
health institutions.
- Design
a computer-based management information system for any organization.
Approximately 90 percent of the industrial engineering graduates
at SIUE are employed at graduation in industry or government
as industrial engineers, systems analysts, production engineers,
management consultants, operations analysts, and similar positions.
The remaining 10 percent continue their education in industrial
engineering, management, business, law, and medicine. Many of
these students accept full-time employment as industrial engineers
while completing their graduate studies.
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