ISE with a minor in physics?

sevan-up88
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:08:11 +0000

I am a junior undergraduate industrial & systems engineer. I hear a lot of IEs get involved with business and finance and I really would rather stay in a more “engineering” related career.

while looking through job applications, i’ve noticed a lot of job descriptions whose qualifications would say something like “materials engineering, mechanical engineering, or related quantitative field”. however, they essentially describe, to a T, what an industrial engineer would do. (DOE, stochastic modeling, computational stats, data analysis, etc). This is based purely off of the nature of the company (not one specific company, but generally science related companies). I am very interested in using concepts from industrial engineering in more science related areas of expertise. but im not quite sure how to get there without switching majors which Id rather not do because im already pretty far into my program.

would minoring in physics give me a competitive edge against other engineering disciplines given that the job seems related to IE? would the minor be a waist of time and knowledge that I don’t use as an IE? Do I simply not understand what these job descriptions are really asking for even though i am familiar with most of the terminology used in the description?

I know that this isnt a super specific question, but any input would be appreciated