Industrial Engineering (Human Effort Engineering) – Fifth Term

In this term and the next term, focus shifts to management. A provision of three electives in fifth term and three electives in sixth term is proposed. From this three, the learners have to take three electives from Human Sciences group/Industrial Engineering group and three electives from Decision Sciences/Business Management/Technology group. Work Systems Design is the course that integrates all the learning of the program and the learners have to engage in design of departments, single location plants, and multi-location production systems in this course. Business System Organization and Management provides an opportunity for the learners to appreciate how business concerns are organized and learn the principles of management. Managing IE Studies and Department provides inputs in the area managing the studies done by industrial engineers and the IE department. A tentative list of elective subjects is provided after the outline of sixth term subjects.


Fifth Term Subjects

Work System Design
Business System Organization and Management
Managing IE Studies and Department
Elective 1:
Elective 2:
Elective 3:




Work System Design

Work Systems Design is the course that integrates all the learning of the program and the learners have to engage in design of departments, single location plants, and multi-location production systems in this course. The location decision of the plant is discussed in this course. Case studies can be used in this course also to bring out the complexities in making location decisions and in facilities design decisions. Cases of setting up Steel plants, Refineries etc. can be discussed as cases in this course.

Business System Organization and Management

The IE student in this curriculum learns certain concepts of management through the history of scientific management. In this he is provided inputs in the topics of starting a business concern, various important functions of large company and principles of management.

Managing IE Studies and Department

This subject covers the managerial skills to be exhibited by the industrial engineer in carrying out IE studies. Understanding the viewpoint of the operator, communicating with him on the importance of the study, and managing the anxieties involved in studies are all explored in this subject. Managing IE department is explored, and place of IE department in different types of companies is also to be examined in this course. This has to be a course that develops managerial knowledge and skills of the industrial engineers.

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