For the first time, the IIE Operational Excellence Conference is offering a post-conference workshop for earning a Lean Six Sigma White Belt certificate. The workshop, scheduled for Oct. 28-29, is the perfect opportunity to learn the basics of Six Sigma and get hands-on experience with the concepts.
Edward E. Whitacre Jr., former chairman and CEO of AT&T Inc., and
a graduate of Texas Technological University with a bachelor's degree
in industrial engineering, has been named chairman of the General
Motors Corp.
Blogger Pierce Story looks at current efforts to fix the U.S. health
care system.
Astronaut Mike Massimino reaches out from the Hubble telescope servicing mission on Twitter.
Occupational expert Lawrence Shatkin asserts that industrial engineering is one of 15 professions that will benefit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in his book, Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan.
Read best-selling author Bill George's seven lessons for leading organizations through major crises.
Scenario: An auto-industry symposium is to end with a lively panel discussion labeled, “Plight of the Detroit Three.” The panelists are a free-enterprise economist, a car-industry insider and an industrial-management researcher. The economist goes first.
Applying manufacturing principles to the health care industry.
What it's like being an industrial engineer for Disney.