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Gain skills at the intersection of analytics, business, and engineering.

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Join the #3 Best Undergraduate Industrial Engineering Program

Industrial and operations engineers seek to describe, predict and optimize the performance of complex societal systems. We use analytics, data science and human systems integration to have a positive societal impact for the common good.

Our graduates are highly multi-disciplinary and find career opportunities in a wide range of pursuits including engineering, business consulting, management, entrepreneurship and more.

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INDUSTRIES AND OCCUPATIONS

Aerospace industry
Analytics
Automation
Automobile industry
Business consulting
Corporate or nonprofit management
Data science
Finance
Healthcare operations
Industrial methods
Law
Manufacturing
Medical supply manufacturing
Medicine
Public administration/government
Quality control
Safety and ergonomics
Scientific research
Semiconductor/electronics industry
Telecommunications industry
Transportation

COMPANIES

Our graduates are recruited to top companies in all major sectors of the economy.

Accenture
AECOM
Amazon
Apple
Bauer Controls
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Detroit Lions
Ernst & Young
FedEx
Ford

General Motors
Goldman-Sachs
Google
Llamasoft
Manhattan Associates, Inc.
Mayo Clinic
Oshkosh Corporation
Tesla Motors
The MITRE Corporation
United States Postal Service

SALARIES

Learn more about the various salary ranges based on experience level and location. Find salary information at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

#3

Undergraduate Industrial Engineering program in U.S. News & World Report (2023)

$79,488

Average entry-level salary of U-M IOE bachelor’s graduates (2020-2021)

98%

Of our students achieved their desired career outcome within 6 months of graduation.

WHERE CAN AN INDUSTRIAL AND OPERATIONS ENGINEERING DEGREE TAKE YOU?

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FEATURED STORIES

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Q&A with U-M IOE Undergrad Oluwakemi Johnson

Oluwakemi Johnson speaks about her experience as a Posse Foundation Scholarship recipient, a University of Michigan IOE DEI Committee member, and how she found her way to the U-M IOE degree program.

Elinoa de la Zerda

Q&A with U-M IOE Undergrad Elinoa de la Zerda

Elinoa discusses the numerous activities she participates in on campus, and why she chose IOE as a major with a computer science minor.

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U-M student group CLAWS develops tools to help astronauts navigate space

The University of Michigan Collaborative Lab for Advancing Work in Space participated in the NASA SUITS Challenge at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. They developed an augmented reality system to help astronauts navigate the moon.

Sadie Cox

Sadie Cox awarded the James W. Barany Student Award for Excellence from IISE

This award recognizes industrial engineering undergraduate students who have distinguished themselves through the excellence of scholarship and campus leadership. Every year three students receive this honor, making this a prestigious award.

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Student spotlight: Wilson MacRitchie

University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering (U-M IOE) undergraduate student, Wilson MacRitchie comes from a long line of U-M engineers. Now it’s 2022 and MacRitchie is set to graduate with a degree from U-M IOE.

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Student spotlight: Caroline Hirth

During Hirth’s time at U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) she has contributed to finding solutions for real-world problems and systems within both Michigan Medicine and in Wayne County.

GET YOUR MASTER’S IN ONE YEAR

The Rackham Sequential Undergraduate/Graduate Studies (SUGS) program allows current U-M students to complete an undergraduate and Master’s degree in five years.

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