Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun industrial_engineering

1 sense of industrial engineering

Sense 1
industrial engineering, industrial management -- (the branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways)
       => engineering, engineering science, applied science, technology -- (the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems; "he had trouble deciding which branch of engineering to study")