Industrial Engineer Engineering and Management Solutions at Work

July 2025    |    Volume: 57    |    Number: 7

The member magazine of the Institute of Industrial and Engineers

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FEATURES

Lighting a STEM fuse for future engineers

Annual gathering matches Girl Scouts with mentors for fun learning event
By Keith Albertson

The new integrated and industrial systems engineering: Expanding contribution and impact

A century of ISE evolution provides context for a new approach
By D. Scott Sink, with Jared Frederici and Alan Grant

The transformation of Chrysler: How Iacocca redefined leadership

Automaker and engineering icon set standards for quality in 1980s
By Mostafa Sayyadi, Michael Provitera and Parnes Cartwright

How to determine your current business status

Any improvement effort begins with knowing where you stand beforehand
By Hakan Butuner

THE FRONT LINE

Top stories in this month's news from the field

  • Dream Day lights STEM spark for California students
  • Olympics fans may soar over LA traffic
  • Cybersecurity expert targets industry vulnerabilities
  • Gen Z workers prove aces at negotiating pay
  • No driver, no problem for minibus model
  • Workers chafe under the glare of ‘helicopter’ bosses
  • Amazon set to launch new fleet of warehouse robots
  • Robotic drones can fill high-rise construction tasks
  • Health execs believe in AI, but its full use lags
  • Cow wearables keep the cream flowing
  • Tech exec: Entry-level jobs are key to building leaders
  • Book of the month: Author explains why tech culture needs a reboot

PERSPECTIVES

Performance by Kevin McManus

Our instant pudding paradox

Management by Cynthia J. Young

How to survive team drift 

21st Century Engineering By Anirudh Dhebar

When the ‘optimal’ thing is merely to ‘muddle through'

Supply Chain by Jim Tompkins

Redesign for disruption: The future belongs to the enabled enterprise 

THE INSTITUTE

This month in IISE news ...

  • Annual in Atlanta knocks it out of the park
  • Annual Conference competition winners
  • Conference tour offers inside view of aircraft assembly
  • IISE Training Focus: Revised Green Belt courses are a hit with students
  • Career Zone: Five ways to improve your LinkedIn profile

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QUOTE/UNQUOTE

"Enlightened companies are beginning to realize that people other than the supervisor know about employee performance. In fact, a worker's peers are more likely to know how an employee performs on a job on a consistent basis."  

– Merwan B. Mehta, author of "Peer Evaluations Hit the Factory Floor" in the January issue

 MULTIMEDIA

 
The best job ever 

The best job ever

Mark Wallace with UPS discusses why his job is the coolest job for an industrial engineer in this December 2014 Web exclusive.

Resurrection in Atlanta 

Resurrection in Atlanta

Members of the IISE Atlanta Chapter appear in this October 2014 video to discuss the value of a revitalizing the chapter.

Training humanitarian IEs 

Training humanitarian IEs

IE interviews the three co-directors of Georgia Tech’s Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics.