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The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research combines two closely related professions concerned with the efficient operation of complex systems.

The industrial engineering profession involves the design, organization, implementation, and economic operation of integrated production and service systems using people, materials, and equipment. Areas of application include not only the basic manufacturing and high technology production processes essential to our economy, but also service organizations such as banks, health care facilities, libraries, and government agencies.

Operations research emphasizes the basic understanding of the functioning of complex systems of technology and management through mathematical models for the purpose of predicting system behavior or optimizing system performance under economic and technological constraints.

In addition to production and service systems described above, application areas include:

• engineering systems such as transportation, energy production and delivery, construction management, and resource extraction
• socio-technological problems such as urban services, environmental planning, waste management, and law enforcement systems, and
• management areas such as financial and investment analysis, resource allocation, risk analysis, and manpower planning.