Industrial engineering has always been a popular study abroad program, so the United States to study in the program employment prospects? How about the direction of employment? And I'll take a look at it.
Industrial Engineering (Industrial Engineering) is the people, equipment, materials, information and the environment and other elements of the production system to optimize the configuration of the industrial and other production processes for systematic planning and design, evaluation and innovation, so as to improve industrial productivity and socio-economic benefits of the specialization of integrated technology. Industrial engineering has been one of the mainstream directions for the training of business managers in western industrialized countries.
A. Professional Requirements
This program doesn't really require much in the way of background, for example, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor requires students to have taken two years of Calculus (four semesters), two years of Science courses (including Chemistry, Physics, or Physics), and two years of Science courses. Chemistry, Physics, or Biology), one course in probability theory, one course in statistics, one course in linear algebra, and computer programming. Students who meet such criteria cover essentially all science and engineering majors, from Physics, Biology, Chemistry to EE, CS, ME, etc.
Second, the employment situation
Industrial Engineering (IE) is a wide range of employment specialties, graduates can be in the field of engineering, management, scientific research and consulting and other areas to obtain a wide range of employment opportunities, can be in the manufacturing industry, the service industry, the public **** business, scientific research institutes, government departments and institutions engaged in teaching, research, management and design The industry can be engaged in a very large number of work.
But relatively speaking, IE in the engineering average starting salary is the lowest. This has to do with the relatively low technical content of the industry. In the United States, the technical content of the profession, employment is generally better, the starting salary is also higher. In addition, employment is also related to the development of the industry, industrial engineering (IE) of the traditional direction is mainly facing factories and traditional industries (automobile manufacturing, etc.), and these industries in the United States has stepped into the twilight, in this case, the employment will become less easy. But the new direction will be relatively good, such as Human Factor, Operations Research, Financial Engineering and so on.
The following are some of the possible areas of employment: Aerospace & Airplanes, Aluminum & Steel, Banking, Ceramics, Construction, Consulting Consulting, Electronics Assembly Electronics Assembly, Energy Energy, Entertainment Entertainment, Forestry & Logging Forestry & Logging, Insurance Insurance, Materials Testing Materials Testing, Medical Services, Military, Mining, Oil & Gas, Plastics & Forming, Retail, Shipbuilding, Transportation
1. Specific direction
In terms of general direction, Industrial Engineering (IE) can be divided into:
Human Factor (Human Factors)
Manufacturing (Manufacturing)
Operation Research (Operations Research)
Production
Among them, Human Factor and Operation Research belong to the emerging direction, and the specialization is relatively young, Operation Research originated from the distribution and coordination of materials during the World War II, and the mathematical and scientific content is very high.
Operation Research
Operation Research can also be extended out of Financial Engineering, Project Management (Project Management), Engineering Management (Engineering Management) There are a number of schools that have been independent of this specialty, such as Stanford University and George Washington University. Some schools have separated the program, such as Stanford University and George Washington University.
Human Factor is not only under IE, but also under CS. There is a lot of crossover between the various specialties in engineering.
Manufacturing is related to manufacturing, very much on the factory side, with more intersection with Mechanical Engineering; Production can be said to be Distributed Control, Supply Chain, Analysis and Modeling. Production can be described as Distributed Control, Supply Chain, Analysis and Modeling, Transportation, Logistics, Stock Theory, Queuing Theory, and Game Theory.
2. If broken down, Industrial Engineering (IE) can be divided into many directions:
Project Management Project Management
Manufacturing, Production and Distribution Manufacturing, Production and Distribution Manufacturing, Production and Distribution
Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Management
Productivity, Methods and Process Engineering Productivity, Methods and Process Engineering
Quality Measurement and Improvement
Program Management
Ergonomics/Human Factors
Technology Development and Transfer
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
Strategic PlanningManagement of Change
Financial Engineering