<p>I’ve recently been researching this major at Cal Poly SLO but the information on the website is still pretty vague. As far as my understanding goes it is focused on manufacturing and operations. It sounds interesting but I still don’t understand what role it serves in the business world. If anyone could further explain this major and what kind of jobs come out of it it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks</p>
<p>Does anyone know?</p>
<p>IT is basically IME (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering) Lite. It’s the engineringish arm of the College of Business… I suppose the focus more on managing factories and the like, where IME focuses more on the implementation… Yeah, I’m not too sure either. I’ll have to ask the IME’s I know next time I see them.</p>
<p>(In case you are wondering, I’m a current Computer Science student at Poly)</p>
<p>It’s tough to define. It’s kind of a cross between an efficiency expert, logistics manager, program manager, and manufacturing engineer, bound together with a lot of business savvy.</p>
<p>You could end up laying out manufacturing lines, starting manufacturing plants, looking for small efficiency details, or crunching statistical work flow data. All with the goal of making plants (not the organic kind), people and technology work better, faster and more effectively. To do this you typically are also a manufacturing know it all.</p>
<p>Good for someone who likes details, people, investigating, in a lot of cases - numbers (particularly excel), manufacturing (getting stuff done), basically keeping things moving along smoothly.</p>