Industrial Engineering (BEng)
Hospitals, airlines, factories, supply chains; industrial engineers make complex systems work better. At ÃÀÅ®×ö°®, you'll learn to improve how people, technology, and information fit together.
Why choose this program?
Industrial engineering sits at the heart of society's essential systems, and we'll help you master it at Atlantic Canada's #1 engineering school. Our program focuses on operational excellence, getting the best out of people, systems, and investment.
You'll learn to optimize processes and systems: saving time, money, energy, and materials while improving efficiency, sustainability, and safety. You'll review workflows, analyze data, and build mathematical models that make complex systems work better.
You'll join a small, close-knit department where students lead at every level and come from all over the world, and where our research connects across faculties, universities, and industries. You can add paid co-op work terms, and in your final year you'll take on a major project for a real company or institution.
Careers
An industrial engineering degree from Dal makes you highly employable across sectors. Our graduates work in manufacturing, health care, aerospace, oil and gas, shipbuilding, supply chain, utilities, transportation and service industries — anywhere complex systems need to run better.
You might start in data analytics, operations optimization, or supply chain roles and grow into project management, consulting, or operations leadership. With 90+ co-op partners, students often receive full-time offers before they graduate and co-op work terms count toward the experience needed to become a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.).
Job opportunities for industrial engineers are plentiful and wide-ranging. Our graduates work in fields from semiconductor manufacturing and airlines to utilities and hospitals, anywhere systems can be made to work better.
What you will learn
Your first two years build a strong, common engineering foundation in math, science, design and engineering fundamentals at our Sexton Campus in Halifax or the Agricultural Campus in Truro. You'll then move into industrial engineering, learning to model, simulate and improve the systems organizations depend on.
Sample courses
Engineering Design and GraphicsÌý
Engineering Chemistry I
Applied Linear Algebra
Applied Vector Calculus
Thermo-Fluid EngineeringÌý
Applied Probability and Statistics
Processes & Systems
Computational Methods and Algorithms for IE
Industrial Statistics
Simulation of Industrial Systems
Quality Control and Reliability
Industrial Engineering Design
A real client project
In your final year you'll take on a major project drawn from a company or institution outside the university and treat it like a consulting assignment: real client, real problem, real recommendations.Ìý
Co-op
Choose the co-op stream to add paid work terms with one of 90+ partner organizations, and get involved through student design teams and the , an early-stage deep tech incubator.
Customize your degree
Tailor your BEng to your goals. Choose the four-year program or the five-year co-op stream, start your studies in Halifax or Truro, and use technical electives and your final-year project to focus on the systems and industries that interest you most, from health care and supply chain to manufacturing and transportation.
Admission requirements
Minimum admission requirements
To be considered for admission to this program, you must meet minimum academic criteria:
- Completion of secondary school (Grade 12)
- Achievement of the minimum average for your program of choice.
- Completion of Grade 12 English (or equivalent course).
Admission to many ÃÀÅ®×ö°® programs is competitive. This means that meeting minimum requirements does not guarantee admission.
Program-specific admission requirements
- Minimum overall average: 70%
- Academic English 12
- Pre-calculus Math 12
- Academic Chemistry 12
- Academic Physics 12
- One additional academic subject
This program may employ a competitive average for admission purposes; meeting minimum posted requirements does not guarantee admission.
