r/industrialengineering

I’m a high school senior applying to colleges soon, and I’m considering majoring in industrial engineering.

Originally, I planned to study computer science and become a software engineer. But after looking into the job market, seeing the changes happening with AI, and talking with people working in software, I’ve become concerned about competition and what entry-level opportunities might look like when I graduate.

After spending hours researching other options, industrial engineering stood out to me, especially the curriculum and the broad range of options. That said, most of what I know comes from Google searches, so I’d really appreciate perspectives from people actually working in the field.

My stats: 4.0 gpa, rank1, multiple summer programs and internships (tech related)

Hi everyone,

I’m an Indian student planning to complete my Class 12 through NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English and Arabic.

I’m planning to apply as an international student to Cairo University Faculty of Engineering, specifically Industrial Engineering.

I’ve contacted the Egyptian international-student authorities, and they told me that NIOS would be accepted if it is considered equivalent to an Indian national board.

So I’m trying to confirm this before I commit to NIOS 12th.

Does anyone here know whether:

• NIOS Senior Secondary Certificate is accepted/equated in Egypt?
• Cairo University accepts NIOS for Engineering?
• NIOS is officially considered equivalent to CBSE/other Indian national boards for this purpose?
• There are any additional requirements for NIOS students applying to Engineering?

I’d really appreciate it if anyone who has actually applied to a Egyptian university with an NIOS certificate could share their experience or any official source/document.

Thanks!

Tired of getting ghosted by the same entry level process/manufacturing/production/industrial engineer roles. Are there any other industries where one shoild job search? I’ve tried construction, but it seems they prefer civil engineering grads even for roles that have little to no CE in them.

Disclosure: I work in industrial product-cost consulting. This is a technical discussion, with no service or link.

A local cycle-time improvement is sometimes booked as a product-cost saving before anyone checks the whole line. In a multi-step process, the economic effect depends on the system constraint and on conforming output, not just one station's speed.

Before calling it a saving, I would check:

1. Where is the current constraint? Did good units shipped per available hour actually increase?
2. Did first-pass yield, scrap or rework change? Faster nominal cycles can raise cost per good unit if quality deteriorates.
3. Did WIP, queue time or changeover effort move elsewhere? Faster upstream release can simply feed a downstream queue.
4. Which costs are truly avoidable? A change in allocated fixed cost is not automatically a cash saving.
5. Can any freed capacity be redeployed, or will it remain idle because demand or the constraint has not changed?

This is a decision framework, not a claim about a particular plant. ASQ's April 2026 Quality Progress discussion of OEE and TEEP also places equipment metrics in the context of constraints and product mix.

For practitioners: which before-and-after measure has best prevented a local efficiency gain from being mistaken for a system cost saving?