Industrial engineering is core branch or not ?
Actually the core branches are those which form tha base of engineering This is because 90% problems related to engineering can be solved with the knowledge of the core branches
such as
Electrical engineering
mechanical engineering
civil engineering
chemical engineering
The industrial engineering are not a core branch because in industrial engineering.
Industrial engineeringis an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes system or organization by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy and materials.
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