Industrial and Systems Engineering

Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) is all about choice. Practitioners work in the industry of their choosing. Product manufacturing and distribution. Transportation. Health care. Telecommunications. Public utilities. Management consulting. And more.Simply put, industrial engineers are in the business of making things work better – and every industry can benefit from that.
Recently renamed the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in honor of a generous endowment, in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, our department is chosen by some of the brightest, most promising industrial and systems engineers-to-be in the nation as their place to prepare for the world of work.

There are many good reasons for our standing, from our faculty to our facilities and from our academic standards to the wide variety (there’s that concept of “choice” again) of industrial and systems engineering disciplines that we offer. We talk about those reasons, as well as just about anything else you could want to know about ISE at NC State, in the pages of this website.We hope you'll choose to spend some time here.

Our university's history is one of listening to the needs of North Carolina and responding with real-world applications that solve real-world problems. NC State University's future is to use knowledge, collaboration and creativity to impact the economic, human, environmental and social concerns of all of society. Today and, even more importantly, for tomorrow."