Typical IE Projects

Industrial engineers figure out how to do things better. They engineer processes and systems that improve quality and productivity. IEs make significant contributions to their employers by saving money while making the workplace better for fellow workers.

In addition to manufacturing, industrial engineers apply their skills in a variety of settings. Here are a few examples:

• Convert an airplane production line to lean manufacturing
• Perform motion and time studies at a candy company
• Reduce the length of waiting lines in a theme park
• Design the admissions procedure at a hospital
• Develop prototypes for the cell phone car adapter market
• Design a clothing warehouse using computer simulation
• Develop a hardware protection program for spacecraft
• Create a quality assurance program for a national restaurant chain
• Prevent worker injuries with an ergonomic intervention program
• Make customer service more efficient at an electronics company
• Launch a material handling system for a new automobile
• Develop the conceptual layout of a dockyard
• Work on a design project to make a medical device that treats sleep apnea
• Teach industrial engineering courses at a university

Some of our recently completed Senior Design Projects

• Process improvement in large wheel loader engine assembly
• Analysis and improvement of hydraulic cylinder assembly work cells at SPX hydraulic technologies in Rockford Illinois
• Process improvements for Compactor line at Caterpillar (Aurora)
• Simulation modeling and analysis for physician productivity and utilization
• Designed experiment analysis: Productivity improvements of the firing line at CST storage DeKalb,IL