Industrial engineers determine the most effective ways to use the basic factors of production to make a product or provide a service. They try to maximize efficiency, study product requirements carefully, and then design manufacturing and information systems to meet those requirements with the help of mathematical methods and models.
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- Starting Salary: $58,358
- Average Salary: $73,820
- Gender Breakdown: 71% male, 29% female
- Job Outlook: expected to grow about as fast as the national average for all occupations through 2014
- Top Three Schools: University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Stanford University
- Professional Societies: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
