Department of Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering

In order to survive and achieve their goals in today’s competitive market, companies and organizations must optimally use their existing resources, both financial and non-financial, to minimize their costs. In addition, efforts to increase the quality of products and services along with the use of various innovations are very effective in their success. Industrial Engineering is a fundamental and effective tool that helps managers and owners of companies and organizations in fulfilling the above-mentioned goals. Industrial Engineering deals with the design, implementation and improvement of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. Industrial Engineering seeks to eliminate and reduce wasted resources such as time, money, raw materials and energy.

Responsibilities of Industrial Engineer

- Analyzing and evaluating existing systems, reviewing production schedules, technical specifications, production workflows and other information to understand the methods and activities of the production or service sector

- Measuring how to produce products or provide services with maximum efficiency

- Development of management control systems for more effective financial planning and cost analysis

- Implementing quality control methods in order to solve production problems and reduce costs

- Collaborating with customers and management to develop design and production standards

- Designing control systems to coordinate activities and production planning in order to ensure the proper quality of products

- Training managers, supervisors and workers if needed

- Compliance with all safety principles at work

Job Prospects

An industrial engineer’s field of work is a combination of management and engineering. Among the most important activities that an industrial engineer is involved with, the following can be mentioned:

Production Management: In order to gain advantages in global competitions, production engineers use chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and economics along with industrial engineering to effectively solve the problems of designing development and implementation of advanced production systems.

Production Systems: This field emphasizes on designing and controlling production, distribution and service systems and includes designing factories, designing transportation, production planning and inventory control.

Financial Engineering: Financial Engineering is designed for those who wish to work in banking, financial management and financial consulting. Training in this field includes the possible processes of optimization, calculations and financial markets and their application.

Quality Engineering: Due to the increasing international competition that has made it inevitable to pay attention to improving the quality of products and services and because of the increasing complexity of current production and service systems, today there is a need for engineers who can implement and direct quality systems with technical and managerial concepts and tools. The subdiscipline of Quality Engineering in Industrial Engineering attempts to train such people. Training in this field emphasizes on improving the quality of organizational quality strategies and statistical methods.

Engineering Management: A lot of progress has been made in this field in the last few decades. The reason for this progress can be seen on three levels. At the national level, the effort for technological leadership which derives from the shortage of raw materials, low productivity and the increase in international competition requires the development of new technologies and the management of technology systems. At the industry level, management without engineering faces problems, and the important role of engineering and information skills in the management of engineering systems is evident. At the individual level, engineers who are drawn to management as a result of their technical success, no matter how strong they are technically, are not ready to face the complexities of managerial responsibilities.

Information Systems Engineering: This subdiscipline is designed for those who wish to learn engineering and management skills with an emphasis on information and computing systems. Those interested in this subdiscipline with abilities such as computer programming, skills related to information systems and familiarity with different software are able to design information systems to control the supply chain of production and trade.

Project Management (Project Control): This is a process to maintain a project path in order to achieve a justified economic balance between the three factors of cost, time and quality during project implementation, a process which receives assistance from its own special tools and techniques in carrying this out. Indeed, project control is the control of the detailed and complete components of the program for the project, in such a way that when leaving the program, the project can be returned to the closest possible state in its original path by identifying the causes and proposing the most economical activities.

Due to the wide scope of Industrial Engineering, it is possible for industrial engineers to work in all industrial centers and factories as well as production and service centers. In other words, Industrial Engineering is used in professions and jobs such as banking, consulting services, insurance industry, airlines, shipping, hospitals, factories, agroindustry, urban services, sports stadiums or any other place that needs planning, guidance, management and productivity improvement. Due to the similarity of this job with industrial management, many industrial engineers work in management domains.

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