Established May 27, 1950

Facts

•Penn State's Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department is one of the top five programs in the country according to U.S. News & World Report

•The IE Department was founded in 1908 and was the first Industrial Engineering department in the world

•The IE Department is located in a spacious $12 million building with state-of-the art facilities, including a working manufacturing lab, robotics lab, and four computer labs with more than 100 networked workstations.

•IE offers B.S., M.Eng., M.S., and Ph.D degrees

•The department has 24 full-time faculty and 12 full-time staff members

•Currently 163 graduate and 326 undergraduate students are enrolled in IE