Is Industrial Engineering worth majoring in?

GLOBALTRAVELER
Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:01:58 +0000

One of the things that hard-core computer engineers (software or hardware) slack off on and sometimes do not do well is the “systems engineering” of the project: developing concise requirements, concept-of-operations (CONOPS), detailed testing, verification and validation and sustainment.

System engineers can really help projects and systems engineering is HUGE in the defense world (Boeing’s, Lockheeds, General Dynamics, CSC’s, Northrops, etc). The best way to academically get into systems engineering is I.E.