• The academic field of industrial engineering encompass analysis of commerical and industrial systems technology.industry image by Marek Kosmal from Fotolia.com
  
  Industrial engineering refers to the analysis, modification and implementation of processes and systems related to materials. Like engineering as a whole, industrial engineering spans a wide breadth of fields including production systems management, transportation and information technology. Each year, U.S. News and World Report magazine ranks the nation's top university level programs in the discipline.
  
  

Georgia Tech

• The Georgia Institute of Technology H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering is the largest industrial engineering school in the United States. The institution offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level academic programs. Georgia' Tech's undergraduate program offers instruction in the basics of engineering in concert with a standard collegiate liberal arts program. Nearly one dozen Master's level degree paths are offered spanning the entire realm of the discipline including operations research, science and health disciplines and computational science. The Stewart School also offers a plethora of doctoral degree programs, ranging in focus from economic decision analysis to bioinformatics and human integrated systems.
  
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
  765 Ferst Drive, NW
  Atlanta, Georgia 30332
  404-894-2300
  isye.gatech.edu
  
  

University of Michigan

• The University of Michigan School of Engineering offers a wide variety of interdepartmental and joint degree programs in industrial engineering in addition to it's standard undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral program offerings. Master's level students have the option of combining their industrial engineering degree with the school's MBA program. Undergraduate level coursework is highlighted by operations modeling, data processing, optimization methods and statistical modeling. Students may apply to the school's Ph.D program directly after completing their undergraduate coursework.
  
  University of Michigan
  Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering
  1205 Beal Ave.
  Ann Arbor, MI 48109
  734-764-6473
  ioe.engin.umich.edu
  
  

Purdue

• The Purdue School of Industrial Engineering offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral concentrations across four major facets of industrial engineering. These include operations research, manufacturing, human factors and production systems. Purdue's undergraduate program focuses on the design and analysis of basic production systems, complete with an analysis of their historical and cultural genesis and scientific ramifications. The school's Master of Science in Industrial Engineering provides for an in depth focus on advanced engineering systems technology. Coursework includes advanced production control, production management control and advanced decision theory.
  
  Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering
  315 N. Grant Street
  West Lafayette, IN 47907
  765-494-5400
  engineering.purdue.edu