industrial engineering

noun

1. engineering applied to the planning, design, and control of industrial operations.

Other Words From

• industrial engineer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of industrial engineering¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

“The challenge is quantifying a system that doesn’t exist and monitoring all data,” says Alessandro Manzardo, an industrial engineering professor from the University of Padova in northern Italy who is running the monitoring part of the project.

From Outside Online

Her accomplishments in psychology, engineering and organizational management were so vast she is considered one of the founders of industrial engineering.

From Time

Born in South Korea and raised in Tampa, Florida, he was an industrial engineering graduate of Georgia Tech.

From ProPublica

The uniform customer experiences they provide are triumphs of industrial engineering and efficiency systems management.

From The Daily Beast

A school of industrial engineering, and of the application of chemistry and mechanics, is working at Barcelona.

From Project Gutenberg