preview

Industrial Engineer Essay

Decent Essays

COULD I BE AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER? Industrial Engineering is probably one of the most versatile and varying fields of engineering. There are so many routes an individual can take with an industrial engineering degree because the subject is applicable to so many areas, and this trait is one of the most attractive characteristics of the major to me. What Does an Industrial Engineer Do? The role of an industrial engineer is to maximize efficiency in systems that have workers, machines, materials, information and energy designed to make a product or a service [1]. According to James Shields, an industrial engineer who works for FedEx Ground, essentially, it is the responsibility of an industrial engineer to understand a system and to …show more content…

Industrial engineers need to think differently from others and need to be creative thinkers. I have exhibited my problem-solving skills daily in my job at Target. As a Target employee, I am required to help customers find items that may not be on the shelves in the back room. When I first started, it was daunting to find these items by myself in the backroom, but by learning my way around the back room and asking for help, I could help customers on my own. I used my resources to have a better understanding of the situation and solved my way through the problem. To be any type of engineer, you need to think critically and problem solve. There will be times in my career in which I need to complete a difficult project and I need to use my problem-solving skills to complete the task. I have already gained and practiced problem solving, so I will be better prepared for the future as an industrial engineer. My public speaking skills are apparent in the many presentations I have led, such as with a program called Junior Achievements (JA). The point of JA is to create a product and sell it to customers. As the head of the Sales Department, I needed to demonstrate to others how to successfully talk about our product and to sell it to others. By teaching others how to properly speak to others, I was practicing and honing my own speaking

Get Access