What Is an Industrial Engineer?

U.S. News & World Report ranked industrial engineering #1 in Engineering jobs

U.S. News & World Report identified Industrial Engineering #1 in Engineering jobs, #11 in STEM, and #19 overall.

Industrial engineers design systems, such as the mail system or customer service queues, to ensure they run efficiently. They do this by optimizing the use of workers, machines, materials and information.

If your online purchases arrive in the mail on time, or your trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles goes faster than you expected, you have an industrial engineer to thank. Please click here to continue this article in U.S. News & World Report.

Announcements

International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Dr. James P. Bailey represented RPI's Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025) from May 19-23 in Detroit, Michigan. AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems. Dr. Bailey served as a senior program committee member for the conference, chaired a session on "Matching on Coalition Formation", and presented talks on strategic manipulation in voting and on strategic behavior in stable matching markets.

Successful Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference

RPI’s Industrial and Systems Engineering Department was well represented at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia on May 31 to June 3, 2025. Students and faculty shared their research, increased their professional networks, and took home some awards and great experiences, including:

Learn More About Industrial and Systems Engineering

Interested in learning more about Industrial and Systems Engineering? Check out the videos on YouTube or the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) site. There is also information about job growth and pay scale on the IISE site.

Ph.D. Student Zulal Isler Ardic Presents

Ph.D. Student Zulal Isler Ardic presented her poster teaser at the 2025 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop in Minneapolis, MN. Her poster entitled “New Optimization Approaches for Designing Experiments” showcased her research with Dr. Diego Moran Ramirez and Dr. Burak Kocuk.

More Congratulations to the Class of 2025!

Congratulations, Class of 2025! Pictured here is Lauren DeLeo and Katherine Cama in the front, Julia Pelletier just behind them, Cullen Sheridan in the middle back, and Julio Rodriguez behind Cullen on the right. We are proud of all our graduates!

2025 Graduation Dinner Banquet

The ISE Department recently held our dinner banquet with our graduating students and their families/friends at Pat’s Barn. Also attending were two of our Industry Advisory Council members, Richard Garrett and John Pfaff. Commencement awards were given, and we had a raffle for our graduates. We are very proud of our students!

Congratulations to our Graduates!

Congratulations to all of our graduates! Please watch this video.

Congratulations, Class of 2025!

Congratulations, Class of 2025! Pictured here at Commencement from left to right are Dominick Celeste, Christian Lederman, Max Kogler, and David Gardiner. We are proud of the achievements of all our graduates!

Innovation & AI: Balancing Efficiency, Sustainability and Developing Emerging Roles for IE, and Implications for IE Education

Dr. Bopaya Bidanda

Department of Industrial Engineering

University of Pittsburgh

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

11:00 - 11:50 am Seminar, 11:50 am - 12:45 Reception

Location: DCC 324

Optimizing Healthcare Systems: Driving Operational Success with Industrial Engineering

Advait S. Dixit

Senior Healthcare Performance Engineer, Montefiore Medical Center

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

11:00 - 11:50 am

Location: Voorhees Computing Center (VCC) 208

This session delves into the transformative role of Industrial and Systems Engineering in healthcare operations. Drawing from real-world experience in an NYC hospital, the session will focus on:

RPI News

RPI&#039;s Ge Wang Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovations in Medical Imaging

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is proud to announce that Ge Wang, Ph.D., Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor and Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at RPI, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Edith H. Quimby Award for Lifetime Achievement in Medical Physics by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).

RPI Student Team Sets Records with Aircraft Design and Piloting at Global Competition

A student team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) designed, built, and flew a remote-controlled aircraft that delivered one of the best overall flight performances in the history of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Design Build Fly competition.

AI Rethought: RPI Researchers Propose a More Effective, Human-Like Approach

New research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) could help shape the future of artificial intelligence by making AI systems less resource-intensive, higher performing, and designed to emulate the human brain.

AI Rethought: RPI Researchers Propose a More Effective, Human-Like Approach

Pazour and Hekimoglu Named James M. Tien ’66 Dean’s Faculty Fellows in Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) announced the appointment of Professor Jennifer Pazour, Ph.D., from the School of Engineering and Professor M. Hakan Hekimoglu, Ph.D., from the Lally School of Management as James M. Tien ’66 Dean’s Faculty Fellows in Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems (DSES).