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Career Opportunities in Industrial Engineering

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Employment in the industrial engineering profession appeals to both women and men who are interested in non-routine jobs. Graduates expect to perform rigorous engineering tasks as well as being innovative implementers. The demand for industrial engineers exists not only in the manufacturing industries but in the service industries, such as air transportation, health care, banking, shipping and electrical generation. In addition, industrial engineers make contributions to many work environments where problems involve the integration of production processes, people and organizational systems. As you can see, a wide variety of opportunities are available in the field of industrial engineering. 

Listed below are a few of the positions currently held by graduates of this department.

Industrial engineer 
Systems engineer 
Quality engineer 
Robotics engineer 
Consultant 
Systems analyst 
Production manager 
Manager 
General manager 
Project manager 
Loss control consultant 
Investment broker 
Operations business analyst 
University professor 
Corporate ergonomist
Corporate industrial engineer 
Human factors engineer 
Manufacturing engineer 
Simulator 
Attorney 
Judge 
Nurse 
Physician 
Account Executive 
Health care administrator 
Vice president 
Executive vice president 
President 
Chief operating officer 
Chief executive officer

Industrial engineering students are recruited by many major companies such as:

American Airlines 
American Express 
Amoco 
Applied Materials 
Anderson Consulting 
Boeing 
Caterpillar
Compaq Computers 
Ethicon 
Exxon 
Federal Express 
Frito Lay 
General Dynamics 
General Motors 
Goldman Sachs & Co 
GTE 
Honeywell Corp. 
Honda 
Hughes Aircraft 
IBM 
Intel 
J.C. Penney
Johnson & Johnson 
Little Tykes 
Lockheed 
Mercedes Benz 
Merrill Lynch 
Mitsubishi 
Motorolla 
NASA 
Neiman Marcus 
Northern Telecom 
Northrup Grumman
Owens-Corning 
Questar 
Raytheon 
Sabre Technology Solutions 
Saturn 
Southwestern Bell Telephone 
Tandy Electronics 
Texaco Inc. 
United Nations 
United Parcel Service 
U.S. Postal Service