Industrial Engineering

Whether it's streamlining an operating room, distributing products worldwide, improving customer relationships through the internet, or designing a new loan processing system for a bank, industrial engineers can be found leading these efforts.

With Industrial Engineering (IE), you will engineer complex systems. By system we mean any organization and/or business process in which people, materials, information, equipment, processes and/or energy interact in an integrated fashion, throughout the life cycles of its associated products, services or programmes.

By engineering we mean the analysis, design, installation, control, evaluation, and improvement of systems, in a manner that protects the integrity and health of the human, social, and natural ecologies.

University of Toronto’s Industrial Engineers are unique in their ability to engineer an organization’s systems and business processes because of their multi-perspective approach. Rather than just focus on efficiency, UofT’s IE’s incorporate cost, quality, information, and managerial and behavioural expertise in their analyses. Their goal is to engineer systems that address all aspects of an organization that affect its performance.

Though Industrial Engineering originated in Manufacturing, today, University of Toronto’s Industrial (Systems) Engineers apply their skills across a diverse set of sectors such as financial, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, logistics, aviation and education. Consequently, University of Toronto’s IE’s are sought after by both industry and management consulting organizations alike.