Engineering mindset.
Business sensibility.
Foundations for Leadership
The Industrial Engineering major prepares you for extraordinary flexibility in your engineering career. You’ll learn how to include the human element in technical problem solving to improve processes in any industry from manufacturing to health care to financial services. Whether your goal is systems management or technical innovation, your IE education will equip you to lead with the big picture in view.
Featured News
Building for the Future
The department is about to take a historic step forward in its ability to educate professionals ready to pursue creative solutions to today’s challenges and move our economy forward.
…Continue reading
IE friends will go on to work for competing companies
A pair of industrial engineering students who befriended each other at Iowa State University will now go their separate ways as they go to work for competing window manufacturers after graduation.
…Continue reading
Making parents lives easier
A pair of industrial engineering alumni have developed a product that will bring convenience and ease to parents and other caretakers when changing diapers on-the-go.
…Continue reading
Engineers take to the sky for 3D printing research
A team of engineering researchers at Iowa State University is studying the most effective ways for manufacturing materials in outer space, with the hope that astronauts can use these methods while on space missions.
…Continue reading
Dr. Sarah Ryan appointed next chair of IMSE
Sarah Ryan has been named the C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. Therkildsen Department Chair of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. Ryan served as the recent interim department chair and her permanent appointment begins immediately.
…Continue reading
Industrial engineers
improve processes
to help people