industrial engineering


noun
  1. engineering applied to the planning, design, and control of industrial operations.

Origin of industrial engineering

1
First recorded in 1970–75

Other words from industrial engineering

  • industrial engineer, noun

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How to use industrial engineering in a sentence

  • The uniform customer experiences they provide are triumphs of industrial engineering and efficiency systems management.

    Pizza Hut’s Evil Genius | Daniel Gross | April 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • A school of industrial engineering, and of the application of chemistry and mechanics, is working at Barcelona.

    Spain | Wentworth Webster