Are industrial engineering core classes hard? What are the toughest courses I will run into during my junior and senior year of Industrial Engineering?
You’d have to provide a link to the Industrial Engineering program you’re interested in, since programs offered at different schools aren’t necessarily the same.
I have a Masters in IE and found the classes both easier and more interesting than what I had to take for my CS undergraduate degree. I can imagine some people struggling with the statistics and math classes involved, though.
Depends on specialty. Human Factors classes were pretty simple, all things considered (the graduate ones, but undergrad were the same). But focus on, say, optimization, and things could get very ugly very quickly math wise. Overall, my perception was that IE was ‘easier’ than, say, EE, ME, or Civil if you grasped the ideas. Undergrad IE may not go as much for depth as for breadth, so there’s that.
Simba’s experience mirrors mine. I have undergrad and grad CS degrees and got another one in IE and the IE degree (human factors) was a cakewalk compared to grad CS. My wife is undergrad CS, grad Statistics, and grad IE (manufacturing systems) and hers was more reading and such, but not too hard.
The OP is asking about undergraduate , not graduate experiences. And has also not asked about CS degrees and any comparison between undergraduate engineering degrees vs. undergraduate CS degrees. But, your experiences are interesting . I am not an engineer but imagine the upper level courses in electrical, chemical, etc probably tend to be harder than industrial for most. But everybody in engineering still has to get through the initial math and science. Agree about looking at the curriculum for schools of interest. Lots of opportunities out there for grads these days , as well as flexibility, Georgia Tech is well known for Industrial and Systems. 40% of their grads go to consulting. Decades ago, there may have been more interest in supply chain, manufacturing. Those are still important areas but there is interest these days in data, systems, consulting, etc. Good luck to the OP if you are pursuing or intend to pursue an undergraduate degree in Industrial and Systems.
Might be better to trust the real-world experiences of people with IE degrees than the mother of an IE student.
Well, I figured something like that was coming @simba9 . Surprised it took so long. Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays to you, too, sevmom.