Before you start to introduce our department, I congratulate all of you for choosing Industrial Engineering as a profession and I would like to state that you will not regret this choice. Our department was opened in 2011-2012 academic year. Our department has adopted the principle of training Industrial Engineers who are sensitive to their environment and society, who can perceive the technologies of the time they are in. The 4 years you spend in the department will be hard but pleasant. I believe that you will integrate quickly with our expert academic staff and that we will carry out a successful education and training together. I wish you success in advance. I want to talk a little bit about Industrial Engineering.
Industrial engineers use scientific knowledge to solve problems in businesses and organizations, focusing on improving productivity through human resources, financial resources, natural resources, better use of equipment. Industrial Engineers use a range of analytics, simulations, and experimentation methods that apply to problems in design, planning, implementation, and operating systems. These problems are in various service institutions such as banks, hospitals, social services and government institutions; In project based companies such as construction and consultancy; in product based companies such as manufacturing and electronics. The focus of industrial engineering is problem solving, system integration and development.
Industrial Engineering is the most comprehensive engineering discipline in terms of career options. While other traditional engineering branches tend to focus on specific applications of skill areas, an Industrial Engineering education offers you the flexibility to develop your career in the industry of your choice. Industrial Engineers usually start their careers with different job titles, as they focus on closing the gap between management and operations in a cross-section of organizations and professional fields. Production engineer, quality engineer, management engineer, productivity manager and process engineer are common entry level or early management jobs for our graduates in production, healthcare and other related engineering fields.
In very simple terms, industrial engineers often understand how to make things better or do things while engineers do something. This is what gives Industrial Engineers so much flexibility. Industrial Engineers are primarily concerned with three closely related issues: efficiency, cost and quality. They address these two issues by looking at the integrated machine, human, information, computer and other resource systems. Various skills and techniques are used to design and operate these systems as efficiently as possible, as well as to continuously improve them and maintain the highest quality levels. Industrial Engineers, while making the workplace better for other employees, on the other hand make important contributions to their employers such as productivity, earnings and quality increase, and cost reduction.
Successful engineers are expected to be more experienced not only in technical engineering skills but also in skills such as communication, ethics, entrepreneurial thinking and professionalism. These leadership and innovativeness distinguish engineers and prepare for future global business leaders by providing training and experience.
Our Master in Engineering Management program, and PhD program which we expect to open, encourages our students to apply their creativity in solving complex engineering design problems and to synthesize and design potential solutions to approach unstructured problems.
Prof. Dr. Tarık ÇAKAR
Industrial Engineering
Head of the Department
