<p>In a lot of places that make stuff IE’s may be counted as part of manufacturing or operations which tends to pay lower than the more ‘cool’ types of engineering like product design and the like. </p>
<p>A number of IE’s also end up in jobs like IT or supply chain and the like. Definitely not a clipboard and stopwatch type job.</p>
<p>Depending on where you go to school IE may also include human factors engineering (at Purdue for example depending on degree plan etc)</p>