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Career Information

INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS CAREER
CLUSTER

Is This You?
 Do you like to know how things work?
 Can you dissect smaller pieces from the big picture?
 Do you like to design new objects or machines?
 Can you work with details?
 Do you like to create ways a machine could improve its function?
 Can you use mathematics and physics concepts to solve problems?
 Do you enjoy problem solving and creative thinking?
 Do you like to work with your hands?
 Do you like to use technology to create programs, solve problems, design objects or
structures?

If you answered YES to most of these questions, then you may be interested in the Industrial and
Engineering Career Cluster described below.

Industrial and Engineering Systems involves programs of study related to the technologies
necessary to design, develop, install, or maintain physical systems.

Careers include those in engineering and related technologies, mechanics and repair,
transportation, manufacturing technology, precision production, and construction.

Workers within this career area design new products or improve existing products or systems,
create new models of automobiles and other forms of transportation, build and repair computers,
write software programs, precision weld, construct buildings, homes and transit systems, use a
computer to simulate and test how a machine, structure, or system operates, read and conform to
design standards, and create solutions to functional, structural, mechanical, or technological
problems.

Those who work in this career area use many skills in mathematics, physical science, problem
solving, logic, and communication.

In the Course Catalog, applicable courses are listed with a Career Code of “E.”

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