工业和系统工程（ISE）致力于设计和改进用于制造产品或提供服务的系统。ISE着眼于使组织最佳运作的“全局”。工业和系统工程系的学生学习和研究如何设计，改进和控制人员，材料，信息，设备，能源和资本的系统，以提高质量，安全性和盈利能力。工业和系统工程师为当今全球经济中几乎所有企业所面临的复杂问题提供了创新的解决方案。因此，不足为奇的是，美国劳工统计局报告说，在美国的18多个工程领域中，我们的领域名列前三名。如果您对专注于制造和服务企业所面临的“大局面”挑战的专业工程职业感兴趣，则工业和系统工程系提供必要的工业
Industrial and systems engineering is the application of engineering methods and the principles of scientific management to the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment, and energy. The industrial and systems engineer is concerned with the design of total systems, and is the leader in the drive for increased productivity and quality improvement. The industrial and systems engineering profession uses a variety of specialized knowledge and skills. These include communications, economics, mathematics, physical and social sciences, together with the methods of engineering analysis and design. The industrial and systems engineer is often involved in designing or improving major systems that encompass the total organization. Consequently, he/she is often in contact with individuals from many segments of the organization. From his/her education and these experiences, the industrial and systems engineer develops a global view of the many inter-related operations necessary to deliver a firm's goods and services. Because of their management skills and global view of the organization, a large proportion of industrial and systems engineers move into management, and later advance into top management positions. Although industrial and systems engineering is especially important to all segments of industry, it is also applied in other types of organizations, such as transportation, health care, public utilities, agriculture, defense, government, merchandising, distribution, logistics, and other service sectors. With increasing emphasis on quality and productivity for successful international competition, it is expected that industrial and systems engineers will be in increasing demand in the coming decades. The objectives of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering are founded in Mississippi State University's educational philosophy and in the industrial engineering profession. They were developed to satisfy the needs of the department's constituents: students, employers, alumni, faculty, and the industrial engineering profession.