Career Path of an Industrial Engineer

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<p>I'm aware that the majority of IE grads work for manufacturers, but how likely is it that an IE grad could work in business or management?</p>

<p>Must ALL Industrial Engineers work at manufacturing plants/factories at some point? I feel like walking around with a clipboard and analyzing machines all day would be awful.</p>

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<p>The career survey from Virginia Tech shows a sizable share of ISE graduates working in analyst positions with firms like Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, etc.</p>

<p>You’ll probably want to focus more on the operations research and systems engineering side of IE rather than ergonomics.</p>