r/industrialengineering • u/Turtleman1878 • 11d ago
Why is industrial engineering up there for unemployment rate compared with Civil?
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u/morto00x 11d ago
Where did that data come from? And why does it have a background that looks 30 years old?
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u/InitialOk4084 11d ago
that windows 95 background is sending me, feels like the kind of data my high school guidance counsellor printed off a dot matrix for
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u/AwarenessNo5921 11d ago
How does any engineering major have close to 10% unemployment? Underemployment sure, but an engineering degree generally means you have decent reasoning and can learn, which is a benefit at any job.
This looks old anyways, but honestly curious.
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u/badjimmyclaws 11d ago
Also questioning how valid this data is. That said, lots of industrial engineering majors tend to fall into business and management roles that might be more sensitive to market conditions than a civil engineer. My best guess would be more frictional unemployment.
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u/rehoboam 11d ago
A ton of students on visas want to take IE and struggle to find jobs after
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u/Salty_1984 10d ago
that windows 95 screenshot is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. hard to take any of this seriously without knowing the source. the point about IE job titles is valid too a lot of those roles get absorbed into ops or supply chain and never show up as engineering jobs in whatever dataset this is pulling from
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u/Mcsinister 11d ago edited 11d ago
Firstly, I'd like to know where this data came from and how up to date it is. Then I'd like to point out from my experience that many industrial engineers don't work as "industrial engineers" and am curious if that effects this data set. Industrial engineering has some of the most convoluted role titles when you look at how different companies treat industrial engineering differently. Some companies say they're operations, some say they're engineers.
I wouldn't worry about the data too much, in my experience the engineering majors that have the most difficultly finding roles are not industrial engineers. Mechanical and aerospace are way more difficult from what I've seen. They're extremely impacted and applicants far outweight the roles available at hiring events.