Industrial Engineers

55% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Industrial Engineers' was $99,380, or $47 per hour

'Industrial Engineers' were paid 106.8% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

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Comments

WELIVER DE LOS SANTOS (Low) 1 year ago

Industrial engineers perform management and personnel handling functions that require interaction with staff, and are not repetitive or linear enough for robots to perform them.

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Richard Crosss (Moderate) 1 year ago

IE's often are required to do mundane, repetitive tasks that can be easily automated by AI. AI will also supplement the analysis process allowing IE's to focus on driving continuous improvement instead of wasting time collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data. AI will also also supplement IE's designing and optimizing production systems by analyzing large amounts of data and leveraging standard IE methods to optimize the recommendations that IE's provide to influence the design and business decisions prior to building or installing new equipment and/or processes.

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Unbiased (Low) 2 years ago

Industrial Engineers are one of the most flexible engineers in the engineering field. Because Industrial Engineers are reckoned for their social skills (which is unlikely to be automated soon) compared to other engineering fields they end up in top management.

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Far (Uncertain) 2 years ago

Since we're heading towards significant automation of operational activities, it's likely that the risk of errors or the potential for improvement will be limited. Therefore, industrial engineers might find it challenging to work.

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Ahmed (No chance) 2 years ago

As an industrial engineer, I have seen a lot of software fail to do our job. Of course, AI helps us a lot, but nowadays the world changes every minute.

The constraints or the requirements of industrial engineering cannot be fulfilled by AI at all.

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CK 3 years ago

IEs are the ones who will be automating production using Machine Learning and AI

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ken wang (Moderate) 5 years ago

IE is a technical oriented job, there are standarlize module of those work. So, AI can collect data and use same module to get the job done

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Justin Williams 2 years ago

You clearly lack some information on what industrial engineers do

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Dusty 1 year ago

lol, I hope it is not replaced I am a freshman IE major, and I am writing my comp II project on AI automation of the workforce. (I am using this as one of my sources). This field of work with others like HR and Accounting will have some automation but overall I think we are safe. Better than majoring in English or History.

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