industrial engineering

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noun

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

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Origin of industrial engineering

First recorded in 1970–75

OTHER WORDS FROM industrial engineering

industrial engineer, noun

Words nearby industrial engineering

industrial democracy, industrial design, industrial development certificate, industrial diamond, industrial disease, industrial engineering, industrial espionage, industrial estate, industrial insurance, industrialism, industrialist

How to use industrial engineering in a sentence

“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.
We Can Solve Our Mounting Plastic Problem|lwhelan|December 9, 2021|Outside Online
Her accomplishments in psychology, engineering and organizational management were so vast she is considered one of the founders of industrial engineering.
The Quest to ‘Have It All’ Isn’t New. History Is Full of Mothers Who Changed the World While Taking Care of Their Children|Nina Ansary|May 6, 2021|Time
Born in South Korea and raised in Tampa, Florida, he was an industrial engineering graduate of Georgia Tech.
Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances|by Peter Elkind with Doris Burke|September 30, 2020|ProPublica
The Industrial Revolution and Victorian practically erased the holiday in England.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Fracking, in this regard, is no different from gypsum mining, or some kinds of industrial agriculture.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Moreover, trucks, dust, and boomtown stress are the effects of any large-scale industrial activity.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A considerable proportion of the industrial and commercial news is now written to an end.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It offers, to those who see it aright, the most perplexing industrial paradox ever presented in the history of mankind.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Industrial society, they say, must be reorganized from top to bottom; private industry must cease.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
But closely allied to this subject, and not inferior to it in importance, stands that of Industrial Training.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The legal framework of the State and of obedience to the law in which industrial society is set threatens to break asunder.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock