what's industrial engineeirng?

<p>Hi,
I was wondering what industrial engineering and operation research's career is like. What are some of the possible career choices? What do they do?</p>

<p>Princeton Review:
<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=79%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=79&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>IEORs "don't make semiconductors, computers, bridges, but we are making SYSTEMS work"</p>

<p>"IEOR is in brief the application of engineering methodology to non-traditonal engineering problems...we use the tools of enginering to solve problems in other areas such as: finanicial areas, communications, government, and industry" ("Homeland security, health care...")</p>

<p>"OR is really the field that deals w/ the applied science side of decision making; its taking mathematical models to model a real sytem where usually you have to allocate a scarce set of resources to improve the effiencey of the system. It could be a transportation sytem....manufacturing sytem...finance..."</p>

<p><a href="http://cap.cs.columbia.edu/john/IEOR_Video/IEOR_videoplayer.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://cap.cs.columbia.edu/john/IEOR_Video/IEOR_videoplayer.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>