工业工程涉及人员，材料和设备的集成系统的设计，改进和安装。它利用数学，物理和社会科学方面的专门知识和技能，以及工程设计的原理和方法来指定，预测和评估从此类系统中获得的结果。通过收集，分析和整理这些知识，工业工程师可以使管理人员有效，高效地利用资源。制造工程涉及规划和选择制造方法，设计和开发制造设备，以及提高当前制造技术的效率和生产率以及创建新技术。制造工程师使用材料科学，金属切削和成形理论，随机动力学模型，数值和自适应控制原理，工程统计信息以及其他物理科学来解决制造问题。
Industrial engineers find ways to make complex processes and systems work better. They help operations to run more efficiently and more safely, leading to improvements in the products we use every day, people’s jobs, and human satisfaction.<br><br>As an industrial engineer, you might design and implement better ways of doing things or making things. You might find ways to improve the value or profit of goods that we use every day. You also could oversee project management, devise improvements to manufacturing plants and factories, or harness the power of data to imaging the next generation of processes.