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The following video produced by the Institute of Industrial Engineers in conjunction with the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads gives a good overview of what industrial engineers do in industry.

Please Note: The video is encoded using the DivX codec and can be viewed using the DivX Web Player. This software is free to use and can be found at DivX.com.

The Industrial Engineering program at ASU is ranked 14th in the nation—third among Western U.S. research universities—by U.S. News & World Report. We are one of 150 programs in the US, 91 of which are accredited. We have the finest faculty in industrial statistics in the world. We have produced the top IE student in the nation three times in the last nine years, and our student IIE chapter has won the Gold Award for an unprecedented seven years in a row.

Thank you for visiting the Department of Industrial Engineering, part of the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering located on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus. Our faculty and staff are dedicated to:

• offering programs that prepare the next generation of industrial engineering leaders,
• creating new knowledge that contributes to solving the major problems facing modern industrial society,
• providing an environment that fosters academic excellence at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and

Industrial Engineering combines knowledge from the physical, mathematical and social sciences to design efficient manufacturing and service systems that integrate people, equipment and information. Improvements made by industrial engineering in automation, information control and process quality revolutionized manufacturing in the past century and greatly increased our quality of life. Trends towards globalization, increased complexity and rapid technological innovation create an even greater need for industrial engineering in the 21st century