<p>Hello all,
My long time friend has decided to major in IE, but his HS counselor told him it isn't a valuable degree anymore due to layoffs in manufacturing. He them told my friend to major in EE, but the problem is, that he has no interest in EE. Is the stuff about IE true? I'd like to get an answer so I can help put his mind at ease. I appreciate any answers I can get.</p>
<p>Going away? Definitely not.
Going down? Depends on the time frame. Engineering is cyclical, and the economy is still pretty weak. I don’t see any reason to think EE is better in the long run, unless you live somewhere close to a ton of EE jobs and almost no manufacturing whatsoever. Which is, by the way, a rather contradictory proposition.</p>
<p><!~Current IE student. Currently in an internship making a good $3800/month with extremely high potential for hire. Are there IE jobs? Well, go here <a href=“https://ncsu-csm.symplicity.com/events/students.php?mode=list&cf=ecf_spring2013[/url]”>https://ncsu-csm.symplicity.com/events/students.php?mode=list&cf=ecf_spring2013</a> then enter full time, and Industrial and systems engineering. There are a good 65 companies looking just this spring for IE’s, and that is our smaller fair. I think we are good.</p>
<p>Actually, systems engineering is one of the most lucrative engineering fields and it’s usually a part of IE.</p>
<p>IE is evolving away from just manufacturing, and has been doing so for some time. While there are surely fewer manufacturing IE jobs now than 20 years ago, IEs are finding jobs in industries that they wouldn’t have 20 years ago.</p>
<p>You could look in the <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys-4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys-4.html</a> to see the job titles of industrial engineering graduates and their success rates.</p>
<p>Maybe that would be true if all industrial engineers did was manufacturing… but that is not all we do, it’s not even a major part of what we do. Delta doesn’t manufacture anything (as far as I’m aware) but they have a huge demand for industrial engineers to optimize their routes, scheduling, supply chain, etc. Any shipping company has similar demands. None of this has much to do with manufacturing, and it’s a much bigger part of what we do. There are loads of other areas industrial engineers go into as well, including but not limited to data science, business analytics, etc.</p>
<p>Man, I used to complain that high school guidance counselors should have their titles changed to high school misguidance counselors, but maybe that means job security for me!</p>