Industrial Engineering and Management (MSc)

How can you design a fraud-resistant, electronic toll collection system? How can an automobile production plant minimize production costs without compromising on quality and safety? How can you design a new complex consumer product (e.g. cosmetics, food, pharmaceutical formulations) and implement it in an existing production facility?

These are typical questions that an Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) engineer can address. In a progressively technological society, IEM engineers will increasingly become leaders of technological innovations and design.

The IEM Master’s degree programme focuses on learning how to deal with practical problems in business and how to obtain solutions driven by a technical and scientific design perspective. The general aim of the IEM Master’s programme is to train engineers to acquire a thorough overview of all primary and secondary business processes, especially with respect to design aspects of a technological product or process.

More than its nearest competitors, the IEM Master’s degree programme of the University of Groningen focuses on technology: in general the curriculum consists of 65% technical courses and 35% management courses. 

There are three specializations within our programme: 

• PTL: Production Technology and Logistics
• IE: Information Engineering
• PPT: Product and Process Technology

One of these specializations has to be chosen right from the start of the programme.

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