Message from the Chair
Dear students, alumni, and community partners, 
Welcome to the Department of Industrial Engineering and thank you for your time and interest in finding out more about our department and the great opportunities that we can offer you to succeed in your future career while feeling part of the department and feeling safe.
The vision of the department is to be favored by the most distinguished students, and to be nationally and internationally recognized. The best thing about this department, specifically, is that you get that small department feel where you get to know the faculty on a personal level, but you're at a big university. It is a department that has a lot of motivated faculties with industry experience, and they're eager to work with students and other faculty members to produce knowledge.
Our department focuses on providing students with skills that fulfill the urgent requirements of businesses in local, national, and international communities. Through our varied relationships with communities, other departments, and schools, we have developed unique curricula and programs for our students. Our curriculums provide a broad-based education in manufacturing design and systems; operations research; and production, supply chain, service engineering, and biomedical applications. Case studies, hands-on exercises, service learning, real-world application, student engagement, and problem-solving are among the unique teaching methods utilized by our faculty to facilitate student learning in the classroom. Our faculty conducts cutting-edge applied research in a range of fields and publishes in scholarly journals. There are career advisors available to talk about job prospects, leadership opportunities for students, program and course choices, and other career-related questions.
Industrial engineering is a very exciting field for students and offers a diverse range of career paths. They can work in all kinds of different industries, everything from defense to transportation, traditional manufacturing, to service industries like healthcare or banking. Students go on to work in companies all over the world, but more importantly, they work to solve problems that impact humans all over the world. Depending on their tasks, industrial engineers work either in offices or in the settings they are trying to improve. For example, when observing problems, they may watch workers assembling parts in a factory. When solving problems, industrial engineers may be in an office at a computer where they analyze data that they or others have collected. Industrial engineers must work well in teams because they need help from others to collect information about problems and implement solutions. Industrial engineers may have to travel to different places of work to observe processes and make assessments.
We invite you to visit us and to spend a few minutes further exploring the great opportunities that our department has in inventory for you to find a sound and fulfilling career. Thank you again, and we are looking forward to working with you and having you on board with us.
Sinan Onal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
