Join Industrial Engineering!
Department Chair
Gul Kremer
515-204-0127
gkremer@iastate.edu
Academic Advisers
Devna Popejoy-Sheriff Heather Robinson
515-294-1603 515-294-7797
devna@iastate.edu hrobins@iastate.edu
Erin Gibson
515-294-1683
egibson@iastate.edu
Percent of We
en to Men in Engineering Majors
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IE is the second highest and Engineering WISE) ISU
women to men ratio in
engineering.
What is
Industrial Engineering?
More info: www.isuie.weebly.com5 Focus Areas:
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT ENTERPRISE COMPUTING
Learn sales, Leam statistics
economics, and and datamining.
management.
HUMAN FACTORS MANUFACTURING
Learnhowto Learn the design
design work tools, and production of
and ergonomics. products
‘OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Lear data optimization,
logistics and scheduling.
Career Outcomes:
Fast track to
‘management while
having a technical
backgorund,
5 Manufacture
_great looking
‘computers!
Design the optimal
route to deliver an
‘Amazon order.
Take the lead in large Flexiblejob
scale engineering || ——_areas towork
projects. int
Industrial Engineering Buzzwords:
IE:
The shorthand way to say industrial Engineering,
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING:
Looks at the complex big picture to solve in depth.
problems
5S:
Short Straighten, Shine, Standardise, Sustain. These are
five ways to maintain an efficient workspace.
KAIZEN:
{A Japanese business philosophy, meaning, “continuous
Improvement”
What Instructors have to say:
“industrial engineers at 1SU excel across diverse felds such
astvansportation, energy, agriculture, and manufacturing
systems because thelr training Occurs at the intersection of
mathematics, statistics, computer science, and design”
Dr Lizhs Wang
“Industral Engineeting is weally adegree which links business
to manufacturing and product design. If’ understand both
the business and technology side of providing products and
services efficently to the market.
We manage the big picture. This s the same skill needed of
entrepreneurs who bring new products and services to
market’-Dr. Dave Sly
Eigonomics i the study of human work fom the physical,
ognitiveand physiological perspective. Medesgh too, ESSE
technology. forties end workplocesto be soferindustial (agg
Etuieepreduesiniuiennresohumaefioncyond PY
effectiveness and help to explain human action and errors’
= Dr. Richard Stone