Healthcare, Entertainment, Electronics, Finance, Shipping, Technology, Manufacturing
Their versatility allows DASE engineers to engage in activities that are useful to a variety of jobs in businesses, nonprofits and government.
- Focus on how to get the work done most efficiently, balancing many factors—such as time, number of workers needed, available technology, actions workers need to take, achieving the end product with no errors, workers' safety, environmental concerns, and cost.
- Use mathematical methods and models to design manufacturing and information systems to meet those requirements most efficiently to find ways to reduce waste and improve performance.
According to the most recent survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), a division of the Department of Labor, the "median annual wage for industrial engineers [with a bachelor's degree] was $78,860. The median wage is the wage at which half of the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $51,180, and the top 10 percent earned more than $118,300.
