Industrial Engineering and Management
What is industrial engineering?
Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) is an engineering discipline that focuses
on designing, operating, managing, and continuously improving manufacturing and service
systems so that they are effective and efficient.
Why industrial engineering at OSU?
Industrial Engineering is the most people-oriented discipline within the engineering
family. The IEM program at OSU is the third oldest industrial engineering program
in the world and is highly ranked. Unique to Industrial Engineering is a program
designed to enable IEM students to obtain a Master of Business Administration (MBA)
in one year after the undergraduate program is completed. Students from industrial
engineering and other engineering disciplines also have an opportunity to pursue an
accelerated one-year Master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management or a
Master's degree in Engineering and Technology Management, a 4+1 option.