Ashton
What are some real life career paths that I can take if I obtain a degree in Industial Engineering.
I know that Engineering is a very popular and smart investment for my education and just want to know what I can do with this degree once I have it. #airline-industry #industrial-engineering #digital-marketing #numerical-analysis
4 answers
Samuel Boulet
Samuel’s Answer
Inustrial engineering is one of the highest paying engineering degrees. You can work at almost any company. The only thing you need to think of is what industry you want to work in.
Wael Al-Rihawi
Wael’s Answer
I don't recommend a career in industrial engineering for one reason. The outlook for growth 1%! In other wards, it is going to be challenging to find a job when graduate. If your heart isn't completely set on industrial engineering, I advise to find some different career.
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/industrial-engineers.htm
Marcos Zatkulak
Marcos’s Answer
I just recently graduated with a degree in Industrial Engineering, and I can confirm that pursuing a degree in this field is a very intelligent investment for your education. The beauty of this degree is that it opens nearly every career path door for you. The field of Industrial Engineering is broad yet powerful; technical yet comprehensive. As an Industrial Engineering student, I confidently approached career fairs because I was very desired job candidate. I genuinely felt like every company was looking to hire my classmates and I.
I had the opportunity to work in the area of Manufacturing / Lean Engineering, and now Technology Consulting. In both instances, I felt fully prepared for the rigor and content of the work because of my Industrial Engineering education. The technical side of the education prepared me to practice engineering, and the problem solving side prepared me to be a consultant.
I genuinely believe that Industrial Engineering is a strong degree that will serve you so well in post-graduation years. I had classmates take jobs in engineering, consulting, operations, supply chain, HR, design, healthcare, agriculture, and so much more. Many also went on to further their education, which is another common path after receiving an engineering degree.
I think Industrial Engineering boils down finding better ways to do things for the betterment of those around us. Therefore, you can use this mindset you learn in the classroom to pursue whatever you desire.
Good luck!
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Kaylen Malley
Kaylen’s Answer
Ashton,
The wouldn't doubt what Wael said - heck, he has an actual source to share the info. But, I did want to take a minute to try and answer your question.
I graduated as an Industrial Engineer, but I have to say, very few people actually hold the title of "Industrial Engineer" that graduate with the degree. I've been seeing more and more of them in demand in the business world doing process improvement work. For example, I work for Southern California Edison (electric utility), and have applied my process improvement & systems-thinking skill sets here quite a bit - very much in demand. My title though is "Senior Business Analyst". I also know of Project Managers & quite a few managers at the company with IE backgrounds who focused in on optimization work in the office (heavy excel modeling). Within the business world, I see a lot of demand in reporting analytics and actually in consulting for process improvement (I know a recent USC graduate that was an IE and now working for the Boston Consulting Group). You can take a look at my LinkedIn for a little more info on what my career path has been so far, but what I was told once is that Industrial Engineering is the engineering major that's on the fast-track to management. Since IEs are focused in on the thinking about system-wide solutions to make things more efficient, they are very much in demand outside of the traditional manufacturing & logistics worlds. Examples of that career path are folks who are Production Managers in manufacturing plants (I know someone who works at Naked Juice with that title that was an IE) or logistics companies (I also know a Supervisor at UPS that was an IE). There's also been more and more demand for IE types of folks in the healthcare system with finding inefficiencies - Kaiser is pretty big on hiring IEs, and other companies are catching on, as well.
Anyways, hopefully that gives you a start in understanding the potential of the degree. The thing I've loved about it is because it's so broad, and having "engineer" on your resume does certainly help in the business world.