Industrial Engineering is at the heart of the systems that are essential to our society. Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, analysis, and control of production and service operations and systems. Industrial engineers address the overall performance of systems, responsiveness of systems to customer and user needs, and the quality of products or services produced. Industrial engineers recognize how the design of machinery, tools, equipment, computers, software and automated systems affect the performance of people and work systems. They also evaluate and design the roles people play within work systems to ensure people can safely, effectively and efficiently perform their tasks while maximizing work quality.

Organizations from every sector of our economy banking, food, energy, health care, commercial aviation, manufacturing, logistics, entertainment and government turn to industrial engineers for help in improving an organization’s efficiency and productivity. Industrial engineers often work in teams with other types of engineers and business specialists to design and improve systems that produce and distribute goods and services. Industrial engineers guide and support organizational management and often become managers. 

The Industrial Engineering department of University of Guilan was developed in 2013, within the Faculty of Technology and Engineering, East of Guilan, and since that time is to provide high quality undergraduate education opportunities for motivated students. The program continuously improves its educational process to help students gain higher levels of engineering education and make professional contribution to the social life.
Currently the Industrial Engineering department offers B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering, and is going to establish the M.Sc. degree in near future.

All the Industrial engineering students have a similar first-year plan of study, the college core, which provides fundamental courses in math, science and engineering. Students in the industrial engineering program gain a strong engineering foundation coupled with core course work in Engineering Economics, Simulation, Optimization, Quality Control, Principle of Management, Operational Research, Project Management, Statistical Engineering, Workplace and Facility design, Production Planning, Ergonomics, Lean Engineering, Systems Thinking and Planning and Inventory Control. In addition to the department core and major courses, industrial engineering students also take select core courses and general education courses.

Graduates of the industrial engineering program develop strong technical, management and design skills that are valuable to many different industries. They pursue a variety of career paths, including jobs in manufacturing and production, health care, finance, energy systems, retail and distribution, aviation, information technology, marketing, and education.