Ok I know that I haven’t been blogging for a while. And what I’m sure about is that people who used to follow my blog lost hope to find updates in my blog and apparently I lost those followers( If ever I had any). OF COURSE I have no excuse and being busy with university stuff wouldn’t be convincing at all, since everyone has ones’ own busy life and still blogging from a while to another.
GUESS WHAT?? This time It’s university which gave me the idea to write this blog.
Since I specialized, the worst question I could ever be asked is “what did you specialize??!!” because when I reply “industrial engineering” people go like “ARE YOU GOING TO WORK IN FACTORIES??!! With large machines??!!!
And I remember that when my brother told daddy that he decided to major in IE ( Industrial Engineering) daddy's response was "cool. The industrial area is just minutes away from here". It could be because the name is a bit misleading but after the new-students meeting with the department our doctor Hamdi Basheer (one of the amazing doctors I've ever seen. Likes ones profession like nothing else ) interpreted that it was named Industrial Engineering because the demand of it occurred after the industrial revolution.
In brief Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of systems, products, systems of people, processes, information, equipments.
The aim of IE is to make processes better in the following ways:
- Make efficient and more profitable business practices.
- Better customer service and product quality.
- Improve efficiency.
- Increase ability to do more with less.
- Making work safer, faster, easier, and more rewarding.
- Helping companies produce more products quickly with high quality.
- Making the world safer through better designed products.
- Reducing costs associated with new technologies.
An IE can hold the following positions: - Project Engineer
- Production Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- Quality Engineer
- Operations Engineer
- Safety Engineer
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Ergonomics Engineer
- Standards Engineer
- Maintenance Engineer
And may work EVERYWHERE: industries, services, companies, education and research.
It's strange when reading the qualifications of a vacancy of one of the positions mentioned above to be a mechanical or an electrical engineer, while it's more the IE's field of work. This was an obstruction for the first graduates, where companies were not aware of what an IE is. If companies are not then commoners are excused!!!
This is my first semester with IE and this is the way I understand IE now and my understanding may clearify more as I proceed in the major so, I’ll be posting things related to my profession to clearify the image for me and you followers and information mentioned here may help those young school youths when choosing their career.
The aim of this blog is just to inform you what is IE, so that you don't give that stupid look when someone tells you he\she is an IE or when your son\daughter comes to tell you that they want to be Industrial Engineers.
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