Industrial Engineering
Dedicated to academic excellence!
Meeting the world's growing demand for productivity and competitiveness.
Industrial engineering is about finding smarter, faster, and better ways to do thing by increasing efficiency, ensuring effectiveness, and driving continuous improvement. We'll teach you how to connect people, processes, and technology to make systems, businesses, communities to run like a dream.
From designing better logistics systems and operational strategies to improving manufacturing processes and healthcare systems, we are dedicated to equipping you with practical skills that make a real difference. Industrial engineers work in areas such as quality control, process optimisation, project management, human factors and ergonomics, data analytics, and systems design, ensuring organisations achieve maximum efficiency and sustainability.
Whether you're starting your studies, taking your career to the next level, or looking to reconnect as an alumnus, our department's open-door policy ensures you'll always feel welcomed and included.
General queries
+27 21 808-4234
Physical address
Industrial Engineering Building
Banghoek Road, Stellenbosch
With a degree in industrial engineering, your career choices are endless—across industries, employers, and even self-employment.
Undergraduate Programmes
Undergraduate Exposure
Industrial engineering provides the tools for modern businesses to thrive in today's competitive world. By analysing and improving processes and systems, industrial engineers ensure businesses are constantly improving and achieving optimal results. This field is essential for organisations seeking to solve complex problems, optimise resources, enhance productivity, and drive innovation to stay ahead of the curve.
The industrial engineering program offers a well-rounded education, combining a strong technical foundation with vital management and communication skills. Students gain expertise across various engineering disciplines, along with training in leadership and group dynamics. This comprehensive approach ensures graduates are fully equipped to make impactful, data-driven decisions and work effectively in any engineering, business, or service environment.
For more information send an email to [email protected]
Industrial engineers are responsible for the analysis, design, planning, implementation, operation, management and maintenance of integrated systems consisting of people, money, material, equipment, information and energy. Quite a mouthful! These are the fields you will be exposed to as an undergraduate:
- We empower you to solve complex problems creatively, finding simplicity and making an impact across disciplines.
- Master creative problem-solving and cross-disciplinary thinking to tackle contemporary business and societal challenges.
- We empower you to solve complex problems creatively, finding simplicity and making an impact across disciplines.
- Master creative problem-solving and cross-disciplinary thinking to tackle contemporary business and societal challenges.
Research Masters / PhD
Research Masters in
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
The luxury of two years' dedicated skills development on a topic of your choice, with a topic guru as supervisor
- Deliverables: 180 credit Thesis and finalised journal paper
- NQF level 9 qualification
- Part-time add full time options available
For more information send an email to [email protected]
Research Phd in
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Programmes
Elevate your expertise with a pioneering PhD in Engineering, where groundbreaking research transforms your passion into innovation and leadership
- Research programme comprising 240 project-work credits in the form of a research dissertation
For more information send an email to [email protected]
Structured Masters in Industrial Engineering
Focus:
Data Science
Develop an in-depth understanding of machine learning models and learn applications in real-world problems
- Structured module-based degree on NQF level 9
- Available as a 2-year full-time or 3-year part-time programme.
For more information send an email to [email protected]
Focus:
Logistics & Supply Chain Systems
The logistics and supply chain systems programme focuses on enabling students to develop-forward thinking strategies to enhance the global competitiveness of supply chains, making significant contributions to logistical frameworks and ensuring the systems are resilient and future ready.
- Structured module-based degree on NQF level 9
- Available as a 2-year full-time or 3-year part-time programme.
For more information send an email to [email protected] or Prof Goedhals-Gerber [email protected]
Focus:
Engineering Management (MEM)
Educating innovative, future-focused leaders to solve the world's complex sociotechnical challenges.
- Designed for early to mid-career engineers and scientists in mind
- 2–3 year part-time programme, delivered in a hybrid online format.
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A recent survey on members of the Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineers (SAIIE) showed that a third of all Industrial Engineers have a postgraduate qualification. Thus, to be competitive in the job-market, postgraduate studies is one way to gain an advantage.