Introduction

Industrial Engineering is a branch of engineering developed with the aim of optimizing complex processes, systems, and organizations. Industrial engineering strives to eliminate waste of time, money, materials, human work hours, machine operating time, energy, and other resources that do not create value. According to the "Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)," the mission of this field is to improve the quality and creativity of systems and processes.
Industrial Engineering is concerned with the development, improvement, and implementation of integrated systems of people, capital, knowledge, information, tools, energy, materials, analyses and syntheses, as well as mathematics, physics, and social sciences from an engineering design perspective to determine, predict, and evaluate the outcomes of such systems or processes.
Industrial Engineering overlaps significantly with systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, manufacturing engineering, management science and engineering, financial engineering, marketing engineering, and human factors engineering, and is sometimes known by these titles.
The first sparks of the emergence of Industrial Engineering are recognized with the publication of the book "The Principles of Scientific Management" in 1900 by Frederick Taylor—the father of Industrial Engineering. Work efficiency improvements under Taylor's method were based on developing work standards and reducing the time required for tasks. The first school of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering was established in 1909 at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1912, an association was founded to promote and advance management, which in 1915 was named the Taylor Society. This association continued its activities from 1934 under the name of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. The first Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering was awarded in 1933 to Mr. Barrens in the field of time and motion study at Cornell University.
The Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Kurdistan was established in the Faculty of Engineering in 1996 to research and address existing problems with a forward-looking approach and train the specialized human resources needed.