UTM - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Technology and all other resources need to be handled in an integrated and efficient manner either to produce a product or a service. Industrial Engineering concentrates on assembly activities and those of improving the performance of an integrated system involving man, material and machine. This activity requires specific knowledge and expertise in physical, engineering and social sciences together with principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict and evaluate results that can be obtained from a system.

Technology and all other resources need to be handled in an integrated and efficient manner either to produce a product or a service. Industrial Engineering concentrates on assembly activities and those of improving the performance of an integrated system involving man, material and machine. This activity requires specific knowledge and expertise in physical, engineering and social sciences together with principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict and evaluate results that can be obtained from a system.

A Industrial Engineer focuses on work design, planning, management and control in the industry. An Industrial Engineer possesses a background in mathematics and engineering principles. These are complemented to cover knowledge in human factors with psychology, sociology, physiology and others. In order to complete the education  in industrial engineering, the above aspects are further complemented with understanding  of the organisational operations of industries, cost, quality and productivity, which constitute  the basis of any industrial activity. Industrial engineering is wider than the conventional  engineering and is interdisciplinary in nature and can be applied in many places and  situations where cost, quality and productivity are important. Hence, an industrial engineering graduate can be employed in both the industrial sector (small, medium and large) and the  service sector (government, education, financial, etc.)