Embracing your Inner Inventor: Industrial Engineering
Courses
Remember that childhood game in which each child acted out
a different part of a machine and worked together to create a new machine? You
loved that game. So you’ve decided to embrace your inner inventor and pursue a
career in industrial engineering. First you need street creds.
The main job of an industrial engineer is to
use basic factors of production in an efficient and effective way to create a
product or service. Thus, most courses in industrial engineering programs
combine technical and business knowledge. Students cover a broad range of
topics from how to use different materials (e.g. electronic assembly, metal
casting, polymer processing, powder metallurgy, semi-conductor manufacturing,
and welding) to how to analyze production system needs (e.g. capacity planning,
forecasting, inventory control, production scheduling, production workflow,
project management and quality control) to how to analyze the economics of
engineering decisions (e.g. asset evaluation, cash flow estimation, project
comparison for finances, and time valuation of money.
Classes may include:
Applied Systems Engineering
Combinatorial Optimizaton
Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling
Design and Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms
e-Commerce Systems Engineering
Facilities Planning
Health Systems Engineering
Human Factors in Product Design
Industrial Automation
Information Engineering
Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Manufacturing Systems, Design and Analysis
Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Occupational Ergonomics and Biomechanics
Production Planning and Control
Production Systems
Safety and Reliability in the Design of Work Systems
Statistical Control of Quality
Simulation Modeling Laboratory
Systems Engineering and Project Management
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