What is Industrial Engineering?
Although it is very difficult to give a formal definition of industrial engineering and its boundaries, as the industrial engineers do many different jobs in many different sectors, the following definition by the Industrial Engineers Institute in the United States is generally accepted:
Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment, and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.