Industrial Engineering

This is the website for the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch.

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Industrial engineering is focused on the integration and optimal utilisation of all of the resources of an enterprise (natural resources, capital resources and intellectual resources) in order to create excellence in the enterprise. In modern society, the requirements towards competitiveness are so much more than ever before. The industrial engineers of today are extremely well-equipped to provide solutions to these modern challenges. These are achieved by analysing the challenges, designing solutions, implementing them and operating them.

INTERNATIONAL WINNER! The USA based Insitute for Industrial Engineering has awarded Miekie Treurnicht first prize for her final year thesis: A Decision Support Framework for Telemedicine Implementation in the Developing World submitted in the competition 2010 SHS Student Paper Competition. Story follows: SHS/ASQ Conference Web site

Industrial Engineers: Have strong leadership qualities Communicate freely with people Co-operate with various other professions Have a wide knowledge of other disciplines Provide strategic leadership in enterprises Focus on enterprises and industries as a whole Drive the improvement processes of enterprises Understand the importance of knowledge Have financial expertise.