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BSc in industrial engineering and management

  • ​​Sophisticated learning infrastructure: The Faculty of Engineering’s labs are equipped with sophisticated technology and software that also is used in the industry. Homework assignments ask students to address various aspects of planning, implementing, and managing different engineering processes, such as ERP system control in order to manage information in large organizations, operating a lab of industrial robots, and gaining experience in a system to engineer ARIS processes. Most courses incorporate the latest software used in the industry: sophisticated applications in Excel; Solidworks software for sketching; Arena software to create and run simulation models; the full Oracle Application infrastructure to gain experience building ERP systems; CASE tools that include software for characterization and analyzing information systems such as Visio and OPCAT; and software to build business intelligence (BI) systems such as QlikView, an open source system that is used for data mining and machine learning. Practicing using these tools during courses enables students to have a soft landing when they transition into the workforce upon completing their studies.
  • The  External Studies and Career Management Unit: Provides guidance and direction throughout studies regarding professional placement and accompanies students throughout the job placement process.
  • Continuing studies: Alumni of the department are invited to continue their studies in one of the graduate programs at the Ruppin Academic Center, particularly the MBA and the MA in Logistics and Global Supply Chain. All of the graduate programs have university-level tuition and schedules that allow students to continue their studies while working full time.

Facts about the Program’s Distinctiveness
Connection to Industry

The Industrial Engineering and Management Department maintains an ongoing relationship with the professional world in order to guarantee alumni’s optimal transition into the industry and to equip them with a real advantage in the job market. During their studies, students are exposed to the employment opportunities that await them through tours of organizations and companies, guest lectures by executives and individuals who hold key positions in the industry who reveal the challenges their organization faces and the methods of action it uses, presenting engineering projects by fourth-year students during an academic day so they can be evaluated by figures from the industry, and participating in job fairs at the initiative of the External Studies and Career Management

  • External Studies and Career Management provides guidance and direction throughout students’ studies regarding professional placement and accompanies students through the job placement process.
  • The Center for Academic-Industry Relations is active within the framework of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management. Its goal is to position the department’s alumni in the Israeli economy as first-rate, skilled engineers. The center maintains ties with industrial factories, organizations, and public authorities. It provides fourth-year students with a list of the organization at which they can perform their final project. The final project is presented at a special conference on projects at the end of the academic year. Numerous guests from the industry participate in the conference.
  • Tours of organizations in the industry: In order to introduce the students to the engineer’s work in various sectors of the economy, groups of students visit companies such as Tempo, Ordan, and Ikea.
  • Lectures and meetings: Senior executives in the economy from leading companies such as Tnuva, Amgal, and Outbrain, most of whom are industrial engineers and managers by education, visit the department and share their experiences as engineers and managers with students. They explain how the tools they acquired as students serve them in planning, decision-making, and coping with the challenges that arise in the field. They also describe how their engineering education impacted their career in the industry.​

Innovation in Teaching

The faculty at the Ruppin Academic Center wins the top slots every year in the national survey on teaching quality that the Israeli Stude​nt Union conducts. 

The trends in industry make it vital to routinely update the contents of the programs as well as of the teaching methods in order to guarantee the maximum efficacy of the curriculum. The teaching methods include simulations, partnerships, and gaming. All this make the classroom into an effective arena brimming with practical, dynamic activity alongside theoretical studies.​

The teaching methods are varied and indicate the faculty’s high commitment to the personal success of each student at the f​aculty and to endowing students with a proven advantage in the job market that positions them in more senior roles that are among the highest paid in the Israeli economy.