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MENG 344 Work Analysis and Design

MENG 344 Work Analysis and Design. Overview of IE. Lotfi K. Gaafar. What is Industrial Engineering?.

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MENG 344 Work Analysis and Design

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  1. MENG 344 Work Analysis and Design Overview of IE Lotfi K. Gaafar

  2. What is Industrial Engineering? IE is the engineering discipline is concerned with planning, organizing and operating industrial facilities and processes for the economic, safe, and effective use of physical and human resources.

  3. What is Industrial Engineering? Industrial Engineering is concerned with the analysis, design, improvement, installation and management of integrated systems of people, finances, materials, equipment, energy and information. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, physiological, social sciences and now electronic communications together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems and measure achievement. IIE

  4. What is Industrial Engineering? Industrial Engineering is an aspect of engineering science devoted to getting the best results from available resources, provided always safety, quality, timeliness, costs and human satisfaction are met. IE is geared to promoting Continuous Improvement and Best Operating Practices within organizations. IIE

  5. What is Industrial Engineering?

  6. What is Industrial Engineering? • More concerned with the way things are done than the actual design. • Systems approach. • System may involve manufacturing, services, healthcare, or agriculture • Maximize outputs from specified inputs

  7. Role of the Industrial Engineer

  8. Marks of a Good Engineer • effective communicator, • efficient problem solver, • life long learner, • critical thinker, • able researcher, • independent learner, • team player, • effective manager, • self motivated, • ethical and socially aware, and • thinks outside the boundary

  9. Soft Skills • ‘Soft’ skills include the ability to: • communicate, • motivate, • lead and delegate, and • negotiate. • ‘Soft’ skills have strong elements of self-knowledge, self-discipline and self-management in them. • It should be stressed that some of these ‘soft’ skills are actually quite deep and sophisticated abilities.

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