Blog Post #1

http://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/area-of-study/ms-industrial-engineering

http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/IE50th/

http://engineering.wayne.edu/ise/


My disciplinary field of study is Industrial Engineering, which deals with optimizing business output. Industrial Engineers figure out ways for businesses to maximize profit and run most efficiently. These three pictures represent Industrial Engineering to me because they each show how business combines with engineering. The first two pictures display as sense of complexity, while the third photo displays a sense of interaction and connection. The first picture can represent Industrial Engineering because not only are you behind a desk plugging away at number, you are also out in the field figuring out the best way to run the company as well. The gears in both pictures one and two show how you have to problem solve and come up with solutions to problems. When I see those gears, I think of the gears in my head grinding with one another to solve a problem. The graph in picture two brings up the idea of statistical analysis. During junior year in high school, I had the opportunity to take a Statistics class and that was where I realized I wanted to do Industrial Engineering and I found my love for statistical analysis. My statistics teacher taught me how statistics relates to the real world and opened my brain to business side of the world. The last picture, shows the communication involved in Industrial Engineering and the social aspect of this field. To be an Industrial Engineer you need to be able to communicate well with other people and cooperate well in groups of small people.