Engineering Homework Help

“What is Industrial Engineering?” 

Essay
Assignment Summary:
Your assignment is to write a single-page essay about “What is Industrial Engineering?” It must be wordprocessed,
single-spaced and at most one page (no more, no less). Also, you must have a margin size of 1 inch
on all sides (i.e., where the top, left and rights sides are even) of your submitted assignment. Occasionally,
your article may not fully reach the bottom margin due to the writing of your essay; thus, if this occurs, you
must not leave more than a 1.5” margin at the bottom in any case. If necessary, write a longer essay! Font
size must be 12 pt and the font type should be Times New Roman for this assignment.
The entire essay must be composed of three paragraphs (again, no more, no less) and these should discuss the
following information:
 (Paragraph 1) What is engineering? What is industrial engineering (IE)? What’s involved in the field of
IE? What educational background is needed for IE?
 (Paragraph 2) What are the various disciplines involved with industrial engineering? What work can
you do in the field? Why is it an important field? What kind of careers can one have in IE?
 (Paragraph 3) Why are you interested in industrial engineering? What motivated you to study IE?
What goals do you have for your career in IE? What do you hope to accomplish once you graduate?
To assist you in completing this assignment, you may use 1-2 references/sources. These can be journal
articles, webpages, books, etc. At the top of the second page, please write the following information:
Name: John Doe
Class: IEGR 204.002
Date: 2/4/16
Assignment: IE Essay
Next, a proper bibliographic reference MUST appear next (under your information) on this second
page. Although many reference styles exist, the only style that will be accepted in this class is the APA-style as
shown demonstrated on the next page.
APA formatting:
First Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial., & Second Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial.
(year of publication). Title of the article with only the first letter of the first word in title or sub-title as well as
proper nouns and acronyms are capitalized. Name of Journal in Italics, volume in italics (issue number in
parenthesis and not in italics if known), first page number-last page number.
APA Example:
Pitts, Jr., R.A., & Ventura, J.A. (2009). Scheduling manufacturing cells using Tabu Search. International Journal
of Production Research, 47(24), 6907-6928.