muhammad ulil albab: Career as an Industrial Engineering

Effective, efficiency, continuous improvement

I believe the words in the above are familiar for people who choose industrial engineering as a major. However, there is opinion if industrial engineering is not include in engineering science, because it has wide range of subjects such as: economics, health, ergonomics, environmental and others.  This article will give explanation about career as an Industrial Engineering.

In nowadays, every organization needs professionals who understand what all the factors affecting its mission are, how they are related, and what can be done to make it all work better. An Industrial Engineer’s job is to find the best combination of people, tools, materials, parts, information and power to provide products or service efficiently. Industrial engineering is different with other engineering specialties such as civil engineering or mechanical engineering. This career track is not restricted to one industry or type of work. It may be industrial in the sense of working in a traditional manufacturing, mining or transportation environment. Or it can lead to work for financial services form, a government agency or a magazine publisher. The main point is as industrial engineers can choose field of work that they have passion in that field.

The main activities of industrial engineers are do research, analyze, create model and test whole systems. That is what industrial engineering dose-it makes a system, a process or an organization work better.

Based on the data, there are almost 200,000 professional industrial engineers in the USA. Moreover, salaries for industrial engineers are excellent, averaging over $60,000 annually in manufacturing, motor vahicles and equipment, electronics, computers and data processing service, and aircraft and parts.

What You Can Do Now

For everyone who still doubt to choose industrial engineering, during study ensure that this field of study will give beneficial for yourself. Ask yourself, “Do I know how this major help my career in the future?” Finding and observing are needed to identify how things or system can be work. Look at the organization and think how it can be created.