<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>First time poster (as you all can see), long time reader.
I have been accepted into a couple schools that I have applied to so far to study Industrial Engineering (Master's). I have decided that I will be going to NC State. My undergraduate degree is in Mathematics and I'm trying to find books that may help me bridge the deficiencies I have in undergraduate course work. I have also reached out to some of the professors and thought I'd reach out here as well. </p>
<p>I am interested in Health Systems and Production Systems. Are there any good resources for prospective IEs, without an engineering background, like myself?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi,
I’m actually in the IE program at NC State right now. Well im on an internship right now, but yeah, I’m in the program. I have a previous bachelors in Psychology too, but I am doing the second bachelors in IE and not the masters. The ISE department does a healthcare option with Premier (a pretty large healthcare company). I interviewed with them when I was checking out internships and they seemed to utilize a lot of Lean/Six Sigma in their processes, particularly Value stream mapping. State has a great IE dept, so congrats! I really like it, let me know if you have any questions.</p>
<p>You should be OK. Mrs. Turbo has undergrad in comp science and stat, graduate in stat also, and did fine in industrial engineering graduate at Purdue. If you follow the optimization / IE math type route your math undergrad will be of immense help. Mrs. T. did Manufacturing Engineering which was fairly high level enterprise operating systems, material handling systems, production control, and the like, no need to worry about it.</p>
<p>You may want to brush up on probability. At Purdue a lot of grad IE classes she took (and several I took, I did the Human Factors track) began with the obligatory probability review…</p>
<p>Well thank you Chuck and Turbo… maybe I’ll see chuck when i get there this August (God’s willing). I will brush up on my probability and statistics… How about the other math courses like Calculus, Ordinary/Partial Diff Eqns, Linear Algebra… Will i need to brush up significantly on those as well?</p>
<p>Calc, fear not. Linear algebra and discrete math, probably. Also learn a bit of programming (C, Python) if you have not done it yet. And spend some time learning Excel (like seriously learn Excel, macros, VBA, etc - at Purdue we did a lot of analysis using Excel, easier than SAS).</p>
<p>Thanks again turbo. Did some C++ and Java in undergrad, so I’ll brush up on that and get into Python. I will get on excel as well… Thanks so very much for your help. I really really appreciate it!</p>