Dear Students,

I would like to welcome you to the Department of Industrial Engineering Technology. I am pleased that you have chosen our department for your major and I hope that you would find the university experience in our department exceedingly rewarding. Our mission is to raise you as competent engineering technologist who can adapt to new circumstances in professional life by using the essential tools and the fundamental background of the disciplines of Industrial Engineering Technology. The goals of our department are to provide academic guidance to help you with program requirements, course prerequisites, course sequencing, etc., as well as to provide career guidance to help you choose a meaningful and gratifying job after graduation. Industrial Engineering is the application of techniques and principles to the improvement, design, and installation of systems that involve people, materials, information, energy and equipment to provide efficient production of goods and services. To evaluate and work with these systems, knowledge and skills in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences are required. Industrial engineering activities form a bridge between management goals and operational performance. The industrial engineers are more concerned with increasing productivity through the management of people, methods of business organization, and technology than the engineers in other specialties, who generally work more with products or processes.

Industrial engineer technologist are employed in multidisciplinary teams, and are usually concerned with the planning, installation, control and improvement of production activities. Such activities may include manufacturing, product innovation, provision of services, transportation, and organizational information flow. Industrial Engineering Technologist may seek employment in organizations such as government, manufacturing industry, research and consulting institutions, health care units, banks, insurance and utility companies Industrial Engineering Technologist can work in many areas in the industry. Some of the possible employment areas include technology management, operations research, systems engineering, optimization, flexible manufacturing systems, planning and control of production and inventory systems, ergonomics, computer applications, process control, multi-objective decision making, machine scheduling, performance evaluation, simulation, service sector, and administrative duties.

In the information and technology age, industrial engineering technologist are also expected to find many job opportunities in emerging areas such as knowledge management, innovation/R&D management, technology management, change management, and supply chain management. Manufacturing firms and service industries hire a significant number of IEs. Today, more and more businesses hire IEs in areas like sales & marketing, finance, information systems and personnel. Corporations as diverse as Coca Cola, UPS, Disney, IBM, Levi Strauss, Nike, The Gap, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Boeing (to name just a few) all use people with IE backgrounds to help manage their businesses. Other industries employing IETs are hospitals, airlines, banks, railroads, and social services.

To provide quality education and applied research in Industrial Engineering Technology and Allied Sciences in order to prepare future technologists for national and global work environments.

• To produce industrial engineering technologists who are capable of taking a leadership position in the broad aspects of industrial engineering
• To nurture well-rounded industrial technology professionals with creative and entrepreneurial minds, sensitive towards social responsibility and moral values.
• To provide innovative solutions to local and global problems.

PEO_1: Create value to organizations through the analysis, evaluation, and improvement of industrial systems and processes through the application of structured and unstructured industrial engineering methodologies and tools.

PEO_2: Work in multi-disciplinary teams providing technical knowledge and communicate effectively across disciplines and cultures to manage and/or lead activities in support of organizational goals and objectives.

PEO_3: Remain technically current through continuous learning and self-improvement, in response to organizational challenges, understand and exhibit professional, ethical and societal responsibility as they pursue their careers.

PLO_1: Engineering Technology Knowledge (SA1): An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, natural science, Engineering Technology fundamentals and Engineering Technology specialization to defined and applied Engineering Technology procedures, processes, systems or methodologies.

PLO_2: Problem Analysis (SA2): An ability to Identify, formulate, research literature and analyze broadly-defined Engineering Technology problems reaching substantiated conclusions using analytical tools appropriate to the discipline or area of specialization.

PLO_3: Design/Development of Solutions (SA3): An ability to design solutions for broadly- defined Engineering Technology problems and contribute to the design of systems, components or processes to meet specified needs with appropriate consideration for public health and safety, cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.

PLO_4: Investigation (SA4): An ability to conduct investigations of broadly-defined problems; locate, search and select relevant data from codes, data bases and literature, design and conduct experiments to provide valid conclusions.

PLO_5: Modern Tool Usage (SA5): An ability to Select and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern technology and IT tools, including prediction and modeling, to broadly-defined Engineering Technology problems, with an understanding of the limitations.

PLO_6: The Engineering Technologist and Society (SA6): An ability to demonstrate understanding of the societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to Engineering Technology practice and solutions to broadly defined Engineering Technology problems.

PLO_7: Environment and Sustainability (SA7): An ability to understand and evaluate the sustainability and impact of Engineering Technology work in the solution of broadly defined Engineering Technology problems in societal and environmental contexts.

PLO_8: Ethics (SA8): Understand and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of Engineering Technology practice

PLO_9: Individual and Team Work (SA9): An ability to Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams.

PLO_10: Communication (SA10): An ability to communicate effectively on broadly defined Engineering Technology activities with the Engineering Technologist community and with society at large, by being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.

PLO_11: Project Management (SA11): An ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Engineering Technology management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member or leader in a team and to manage projects in multidisciplinary environments.   

PLO_12: Lifelong Learning (SA12): An ability to recognize the need for, and have the ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in specialist Engineering Technologies.

The department of Industrial engineering technologist at Hamdard University offers Bachelor’s degree program BSc (Industrial Engineering Technologist) spanning over 4 years. Three year University study and one year Supervised Industrial Training. The program has been prepared in accordance with the National Technology Council (NTC) Guidelines.

Admission criterion prescribed by NTC Regulations

Students are admitted in engineering technology programs as per the following criteria:

• Minimum 50% marks in F.Sc or Equivalent Qualification/ ICS / DAE / B.Sc. (Excluding sports and Hafiz-e-Quran)
  • Clearance of Entrance Test, which comprises five sections with equal number of MCQs in each section. The sections are Mathematics, Physics, English, General Knowledge and IQs.
  • The entrance test for all faculties is conducted under the supervision of ‘Central Admission Committee’ of the University.

A candidate is also required to go through an interview before he/she is eligible for admission, especially in an engineering program. Table 7 gives the entrance criteria followed by Industrial Engineering Technology program.

Industrial Engineering Technology program entrance criteria: