How to Use industrial engineering in a Sentence

industrial engineering

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  • Khalaf was born in Lebanon and holds a PhD in industrial engineering.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Someone, somewhere in some industrial engineering room at one of the major helmet corporations, will figure this out and save the day.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Olaf went on to graduate from Georgia Tech with a degree in industrial engineering.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Looked at as industrial engineering, the goal is to turn a standing tree into heat as efficiently as possible.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The groom has a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from UA and is in building materials sales.
    — Cary Jenkins, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2022
  • High-tech businesses in the industrial engineering space are one focus.
    — David Prosser, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Naumoff was a co-founder and director at the Oberlin Food Hub and has a background in industrial engineering and economic development.
    — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Among them was Muench, who was studying industrial engineering.
    — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • On her retirement in 1948, the school awarded her an honorary doctorate in industrial engineering.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Iacocca ripped through eight straight semesters, with no summers off, graduating with honors in industrial engineering in 1945.
    — Charlotte W. Craig, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2019
  • Led by John Zachry, Zachry Group took over industrial projects in the power and petrochemical sectors, industrial engineering and maintenance.
    — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 10 June 2020
  • In a more common scenario, fast-food and retail companies could combine spatial computing with standard industrial engineering techniques (such as time-motion analyses) to enhance the efficient flow of work.
    — Corinna E. Lathan, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The apprentice dormitory is also being restored and will emphasize — as the museum does — the brutal cost extracted from the workers for these wonders of industrial engineering.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Zahra Rahmani, an 18-year-old industrial engineering student who follows the long black veil conservative dress code, questioned the decision of government officials.
    — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Cheaper by the Dozen obscures Lillian Gilbreth’s contributions to industrial engineering and to society in general.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Beyond the world of industrial engineering, tribology remains an almost sacral science: Most find the idea more theoretical than practical, especially given that the physics of surfaces is hard to describe or imagine.
    — Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
  • David Johnson, an assistant professor of political science and industrial engineering at Purdue University, said this is part of the reason why updating floodplain maps can fall a few years — or decades — behind schedule.
    — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Zachry Group took over industrial projects in the power and petrochemical sectors, industrial engineering and maintenance.
    — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Small behavior changes are having huge effects, and the industry is having trouble keeping up, said Karen Smilowitz, a professor of industrial engineering at Northwestern University.
    — Laura Reiley, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The factory workforce has a larger than typical design and industrial engineering team, and overall, 40 to 50% of the factory operations are automated.
    — Brooke Roberts-Islam, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • His father is an industrial engineering consultant, also in Battle Creek.
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
  • That earned the top honor from a judging panel that included experts in the fields of forensic science, postal operations, drug interdiction, industrial engineering and artificial intelligence.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Krauze earned an undergraduate degree in industrial engineering and a doctorate in history.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Their remarkable misapprehension measures the gulf between Renaissance humanist engineering and the industrial engineering of the mid- to late nineteenth century.
    — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Her accomplishments in psychology, engineering and organizational management were so vast she is considered one of the founders of industrial engineering.
    — Nina Ansary, Time, 6 May 2021
  • Martina Merz runs the German industrial engineering conglomerate Thyssenkrupp.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Foth Companies, a mechanical and industrial engineering firm.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The new jobs include roles in operations management, warehouse supervising, robotics maintenance, and industrial engineering.
    — Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Economics is now significantly more male than chemistry, biology, or industrial engineering.
    — Caroline Freund, Teen Vogue, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The chemical engineering of gas reaction, the mechanical engineering of tool development and packaging, the material engineering of new manufacturing materials, and the industrial engineering of supply chain and logistics optimization.
    — Mung Chiang, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021

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