Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Did You Know?

• The median reported starting salary of ISU industrial engineering graduates was $60,360 per year in 2008-09 – and some received signing bonuses of up to $5,000

• According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers in July 2009, industrial engineering is the 8th-highest earning among all college degrees ($58,581/year)

• The IE graduate program is ranked 26th (18th among public universities) by US News and World Report

• The department’s first chair, Frank Paine, was mayor of Ames and coined the name VEISHEA

• An IMSE graduate alumna was the first Panamanian woman to earn a Ph.D. in engineering

• 25% of IMSE graduate students are women

• 30% of IMSE undergraduate students are women

• 29% of IMSE faculty are women

• IMSE has the highest number of students participating in the concurrent BS/MBA degree program, which requires only one additional year of school

• Concurrent BS/MS and BS/MEng programs allow students to complete a graduate engineering degree in just one additional year

• Each year since 2005, an average of 10% of IE undergraduate students has had an international academic experience

• Two IMSE faculty members hold joint appointments in the top-5 ranked Department of Statistics