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Industrial Engineering is changing. Industry is now looking for more innovation. New industrial engineers are intimately involved in the innovation processes that create new products, the new processes that produce them and the services that deliver them.

New Topics

Industrial Engineering at NUI Galway has more design and more innovation courses. These innovation skills are easily transferred between industries and increasingly into services such as hospitals and entertainment. New courses include:

Design and Make | Design Methods | Visual Communications| Applied Innovation | Design Ergonomics | Project Management | Technology Innovation | Entrepreneurship

First Year 

First year is primarily a pre-Engineering year in common with all other B.E. programmes. It exposes you to basic science subjects, computing, technical drawing and engineering science. There are factory visits, laboratory practicals and tutorials. You also take an induction course that allows you to get to know each other, the Industrial Engineering Department and various research activities.

Second and Subsequent Years 

The second and subsequent years of this four-year course focuses largely on Innovation, Industrial Engineering, Management Science, and Computer Systems. You develop Design skills, Communications skills and Presentation skills. Some courses are taught through continuous assessment only, allowing students to spend most of their time solving problems on projects rather than in the classroom. Second year introduces topics such as Materials, Machines, Production Processes, Work Study, and Organizations. In third year, the focus is on Industrial Management; Computer Hardware, Programming and Applications; Engineering Design and Manufacturing. Final-year topics include Project Management, Logistics, Applied Innovation, Quality Assurance, Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Design of the Man-Machine Interface. Students also have the opportunity of studying a European Language.

Project Based Learning

Many of our courses now include ’project based learning’ where you will work in teams to build special projects. Various projects require you to design and make special devices, design new processes for making devices and practice what you learn in lectures. All students also do a placement in third year and do a major project in final year. Between the third and fourth years, students spend time on the Professional Experience Programme (PEP) - they are assigned to positions in companies across all sectors of employment; principally, but not exclusively, in either manufacturing or software companies. PEP is a chance to see how the real world' works and to put into practice many of the skills acquired from coursework. In final year, students work on a major project. Previous projects have included the design of software programs for operating an un-manned machine, problem solving with local industries and creating a 'factory of the future' that could operate over the Internet.

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