Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

While there are many reasons why you should enroll in our program, here are a few for you to consider.

• Industrial engineers enjoy a flexible career path that allows them to advance in many types of organizations.
• Industrial engineers have a profound impact on society's quality of life.
• You will experience engineering through hands-on learning in our manufacturing laboratories and through problem based learning with real world engineering problems.
• Students in our senior design course work with industry sponsors to solve actual problems.
• Students are placed in professional positions within a month of graduation.
• While in Ames, students will have an opportunity to work on engineering projects with students located in other countries.
• Students also have a choice to study at an international university for a semester.
• The combined B.S. in IE/MBA program is designed so that you can graduate within 5 years.
• U.S News and World Report ranks the IMSE graduate program 23th in the nation in 2007.