Industrial Engineer – For starters and to give you an overview on industrial engineering I want to refer you to the Wikipedia web-page called “Industrial Engineering”. You will find an introduction, and also a list of universities in the USA where you can study industrial engineering. There is also a brief history, the post-graduate curriculum and the under-graduate curriculum are mentioned, and finally salaries and work-force statistics are shown. More details can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering . A list of industrial-engineers can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_engineers .
At the PrincetonReview.com you will find the article “a day in the life of an industrial-engineer.”This article can be found here: http://www.princetonreview.com/Careers.aspx?cid=79 .
Our next stop is OnetOnline.org, where you are presented with a summary report for industrial-engineers. More information is given about the possible job titles, the tasks, the tools and the technology that is being used, the knowledge, the skills, the abilities you need to have, the work activities, the work context, the job zone, the interests, the work styles, the work values, the related occupations, and finally the wages and employment trends. For full details take a look here: http://online.onetcenter.org/link/summary/17-2112.00 . A similar report for Industrial Engineering technicians, can be found here: http://online.onetcenter.org/link/summary/17-3026.00 .
When you visit Engineering Girl, you can see a career description, with the focus on girls and women. The actual page can be found here: http://www.engineergirl.org/?id=2973 . It is a good thing that also girls and women participate in industrial automation engineering!
Then the following place to visit is the web-site of Industrial Engineering Magazine, where you are introduced to this magazine and the different services it has got to offer. You can visit them here: http://www.iienet2.org/Landing.aspx?id=973 . And also here: http://www.iienet2.org/Default.aspx .
And finally we visit Industrial-Engineer.com, where they showcase industrial engineering products and jobs. There is a listing of the latest job offers. And an other listing shows us relevant companies and their products. You can visit this web-site here for more information: http://www.industrialengineer.com/default.asp .
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