Industrial engineer
You will be a professional oriented to the design, improvement, installation and implementation of integrated systems for people, equipment, materials, information, and energy. The career is based on specialized knowledge in mathematical, physical and chemical sciences, as well as the use of engineering analysis methods, design, modeling and simulation, along with management and innovation principles.
Why Industrial Engineering?
This career gives you the opportunity to hold key positions in companies in the industrial, logistics, commercial, financial or technological sectors, since every organization needs to optimize its processes. This international program with WMU combines a traditional engineering program with a business engineering approach where engineering design, creativity, and innovation are emphasized throughout the curriculum. The curriculum offers students the opportunity to solve real-world problems in a practical business model environment. Students learn how to bring real products and services to market and how to start their own businesses to market and sell their product ideas.
Where can you start?
Industrial Engineering students take courses in a variety of disciplines that provide the skills to start their own businesses and prepare them for careers in many different industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, aerospace, recreation, leisure, entertainment, distribution, logistics, banking or insurance. Graduates of the program have learned the math and science foundation of a traditional engineering degree, as well as how to use engineering and business skills to become a successful entrepreneur.
How can you work?
The possibilities with a degree in industrial engineering are many and varied. Graduates can be placed in leadership positions within academia, consulting, engineering, financial services, healthcare, law, manufacturing, retail, transportation, humanitarian logistics, and more.
Competences
- Design, control, evaluate and optimize production systems and manufacturing processes and services.
- Formulate, manage and lead engineering projects and continuous improvement.
- Integrate human, financial, technological and material resources to manage and optimize processes and systems.
- Manage, design, evaluate and optimize supply chains and logistics.
- Design and audit quality management systems and continuous improvement.
- Plan production systems and inventories.
- Model and simulate processes using specialized tools and software.
- Locate and design layouts of facilities and industrial plants.
