What is IIE?

is the world’s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. Founded in 1948, IIE is an international, non-profit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research, and development of industrial engineering.

With more than 15,000 members and 280 chapters worldwide, IIE’s primary mission is to meet the ever-changing needs of its membership, which includes undergraduate and graduate students, engineering practitioners and consultants in all industries, engineering managers, and engineers in education, research, and government.

IIE is recognized internationally as:

The leading provider of cutting-edge education in industrial engineering
The acknowledged source of productivity improvement information via the Internet, publications, and live events, including the Annual Convention and topical seminars
An invaluable source of member benefits that include professional development programs, fringe benefits, a career center, networking communities, chapters, and affinity programs that save members time and money
The only association that supports the profession of industrial engineering and promotes an increased awareness of the value of industrial engineers
The only association that supports accredited Industrial Engineering programs through the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)

What is Industrial Engineering?

Industrial Engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, material, information, equipment, and energy.

What do IEs do?

Industrial engineers figure out how to do things better. They engineer processes and systems that improve quality and productivity. They work to eliminate waste of time, money, materials, energy, and other commodities. Most important of all, IEs save companies money. This is why more and more companies are hiring industrial engineers and then promoting them into management positions.

Where do IEs work?

Manufacturing firms and service industries hire a significant number of IEs. Today, more and more businesses hire IEs in areas like sales and marketing, finance, information systems, and personnel. Other industries employing IEs are hospitals, airlines, banks, railroads, and social services.

How IEs Benefit Society and Business?

Industrial engineering has provided a systematic approach to streamline and improve productivity and efficiency. Benefits that can be linked directly to the work of industrial engineers include:

Leaner, more efficient, and more profitable business practices while increasing customer service and quality.
Improved efficiency. This improves competitiveness, profitability, and reduces resource requirements.
The idea of setting labor or time standards. The original production lines in the 1920s were successful because of IEs. The IE profession is timeless and can be molded to fit the times and the place.
Good organization and improving productivity - these improvements eliminate or reduce some of the frustrations of life and are essential to the long term health of business.
Increased ability to do more with less.
Making work safer, faster, easier, and more rewarding.
Providing a method by which businesses can analyze their processes and try to make improvements to them. It is focused on optimization - doing more with less - and helps to reduce waste in society.
Increased cycle time and throughput thus helping more people get their product quicker.
Assistance in guiding society and business to care more for their workforce while improving the bottom-line.
Showing ways to improve the working environment, improving efficiencies, and teaching people about ergonomics.
Making the world safer through better designed and easier to use products.
Reducing costs associated with new technologies, thus allowing more of the population to better their lives by being able to afford technological advances.