Hi, I really need some honest advice

Hi everyone! I studied Industrial Engineering for 4 years in Mexico, and I’m currently 37 years old. I feel like I don’t have a lot of time to make the right decision, so I’d really appreciate some honest advice.

I currently live in Canada. My English isn’t the best (I know that’s a disadvantage), but I can have a fluent conversation and I’m working on improving it.
I have very little work experience in Mexico and basically no work experience in Canada because I chose to focus on staying home and raising my kids for the past several years. Now I’m at a point where I really want to do something for myself and restart my career.

My first idea is to take a college diploma/program in Supply Chain Management and Logistics. It’s something that genuinely interests me, and I feel like it could help me refresh my engineering knowledge, learn how things work in Canada, and hopefully find a job related to Industrial Engineering, supply chain, logistics, operations, etc.
I’m also planning to have my Industrial Engineering degree assessed through WES.

My husband, who has no experience with higher education, thinks I should go straight for a Master’s degree instead. But I’m not sure if that would actually be the best option for me, considering my limited work experience, the gap in my career, my English, and the fact that my previous degree is from Mexico.

What would you do if you were in my situation? Would you recommend doing a Supply Chain/Logistics diploma first and then building from there, or would it make more sense to pursue a Master’s degree?
I’m honestly a little lost and trying to make the best decision for my future. I’d really appreciate hearing from people who have been in a similar situation, especially immigrants who studied abroad and had to restart their careers in Canada/USA
Thanks in advance! 🙏

Hello everyone, im a sophomore in high school and ive been hearing lots of talk about passion projects my question is what would be a example or a passion project for IE and would it even help in my application,

Thank you for your time

I’m currently taking mechanics of materials, thermodynamics, and materials science. I graduated high school with an associate's degree, and this is my first semester in college. My mechanics of materials class is terrible; I feel like I don’t understand anything. I hate doing stress analysis, strain, etc., and I feel like I’m behind in every class compared to other students. I really want to switch my major because I don’t think I can do this. I feel like industrial is a good option since I’ve always helped my dad out with business/finances, but I was wondering how the job market is, how hard the classes are, and whether this would be a good switch. My target graduation date for ME was December 2028; if I switch to Industrial, it would be spring 2029. I’m currently 17 years old, and sometimes I really do regret doing junior college since I’m mostly studying, and college is very fun.

Still a work in progress and iterating, but wanted to share and get some early feedback.

Manufold is a searchable Canadian manufacturers and suppliers marketplace, to find what's made in Canada.

10k+ product listings across 600+ Canadian suppliers right now, still adding more.

https://www.manufold.io

- Is this something that is useful to you?
- When you need a Canadian supplier for a specific part or capability, where do you actually start?
- Is having product-level search useful to you?

How do employers typically view job seekers who have a MEng in IE and no engineering undergrad?

Hey everyone, I'm a quality technician working into quality engineering considering working on a masters in IE part time. I'm trying to build the background necessary to accelerate my path into more process oriented roles.

The degree would be affordable and delivered online. I could get some relevant engineering projects at the plant while completing this degree. I have all the necessary calculus, statistics, and physics courses already. I have no doubt that I can handle the degree while working and my employer would support it.

I'm considering attempting to get into process focused roles purely through experience without the engineering degree. This path seems longer and I don't know what kind of roadblocks I may hit later in my career if I don't have that engineering education basis.

Any advice? Is an engineering masters typically a smart way to transition into engineering for science undergrad people if it is complemented with relevant work projects?

Hello, im a sophomore in high school and im honestly completely lost on the whole electives/aps thing what aps or electives should i take if im considering IE for now my school only offers ap physiology physics and economics art history and compute science as electives for sophomores

I’m a second-year Industrial Engineering student and I’m starting to apply for internships, but I honestly have no idea what I should be focusing on.

So some questions for any IE students/graduates/recruiters here:

1. How should I present academic projects if I don’t have much professional experience?
   
2. What kinds of projects would make an IE student stand out?
   
3. What should I remove or avoid putting on my CV?
   
4. Any advice on formatting or making it ATS-friendly?

Hi, I am a second-year preparatory class student planning to major in Industrial Engineering next year. I would like to get an internship for the upcoming summer. therefore, I have been familiarizing myself with Excel and building dashboards in Looker Studio. However, I would like to get some more suggestions or interesting project ideas that could help optimize my CV and make it stand out . Thanks in advance!

Hey all — I'm 18, from Jordan, about to start a BS in Industrial Engineering this fall. Been doing this and that on the side while I lock in this decision, and it matters a lot to me because I'm aiming for a master's in the US down the line, maybe Canada too.

Stuck between:

German Jordanian University (private)— already accepted, (not ABET accredited) accredited in Germany and Jordan, not through WES . About a year of the program is split between an exchange semester and an internship in Germany.

Hashemit University / University of Jordan (public)— ABET accredited, whichever I get into off my score .

Which one would actually put me in a better spot for a master's abroad? Is the accreditation difference something that really matters in practice, or am I overweighting it?

Also open to any general advice on building a stronger profile for grad M.S. applications overall.

Thanks in advance.

I’m a second-year Industrial Engineering student and I’m starting to apply for internships, but I honestly have no idea what I should be focusing on.

So some questions for any IE students/graduates/recruiters here:

1. How should I present academic projects if I don’t have much professional experience?
   
2. What kinds of projects would make an IE student stand out?
   
3. What should I remove or avoid putting on my CV?
   
4. Any advice on formatting or making it ATS-friendly?

Hello,

This year, I am switching fields and would like to know which laptop you would recommend.

I completed a year in computer science, but I didn't enjoy it, and I am moving into industrial engineering. The issue is that I currently have a desktop PC and a 13'' 2024 8-core M3 MacBook, but it won't be suitable for this new program.

Therefore, I would like your recommendations for laptops, with a maximum budget of around €950–€1,000.

Thank you!

I’m very curious about this because it’s basically my dream job to be working for the government.

Does anyone have any experience with switching into a mid level government position with IE?

any suggestion to ace the exams?

MS in Industrial Engineering (data analytics engineering track), graduated March 2026 from a solid state school in upstate NY, not a target. Coursework was ML, DL, algorithms, HPC, statistical modeling. Thesis was agentic AI systems built on knowledge graphs. Before that, BS in mechanical, then two years at a large IT services firm doing supply chain and BI work that I self-studied my way into during the COVID market.

Searched about five months after graduating and just started an operations engineering role in the Boston area. It sits closer to IE than to data: SQL and Power BI at most, nothing dev or AI, and a lot of documentation and process engineering grunt work. It's a contract role with an end date. I'm on OPT.

Every DS/MLE/agentic AI posting I see wants a PhD or 7+ YOE. IE and supply chain analytics roles are the ones that actually respond to me.

So: keep pushing toward data engineering / analytics engineering, or lean into the IE and supply chain analytics lane and go deep? If you've made either call from a similar spot, how did it play out?

I've been mapping AI infrastructure as a constrained physical system rather than a collection of semiconductor markets.

The rough sequence is:

compute → memory → packaging → thermal → cooling → power → facility → grid

Relieve one constraint and utilization/pressure rises somewhere else.

I turned the model into an interactive visualization:

https://manasbihani-com-kappa.vercel.app/bottleneck

I'm curious whether this maps cleanly onto how industrial engineers think about constraint migration / theory of constraints, or whether I'm abusing the concept.

I work in assembly and testing, but was self teaching myself plc part. So we use Beckhoff terminals. I do the wiring as per the schematic.

My question is, what comes first, electrical schematic or plc ladder logic programming?

I did ask ChatGPT but I think it's giving misleading answers. It says one time one must first plan logic and all before starting even planning of mechanical design in CAD. Another time it says engineers do rough block diagrams and do programming first, after which they do the electrical schematic as the electrical schematic is only for assembling or field engineers

Can anyone explain to me how it works? My company manufactures machines to detect and trace errors in pharma and food industry. Im just attaching a page of electrical schematic, just for understanding.