The certification landscape for industrial engineers — PE licensure and ASQ Six Sigma and APICS/ASCM credentials — the change-management skill that determines whether a technically correct redesign survives contact with the people who run it, and professional ethics in reporting improvement results.
Industrial and systems engineering's professional-practice landscape looks different from civil or structural engineering's: most of what this program's five real projects produced doesn't require a stamped, sealed engineering document to be legally implemented, so PE licensure is pursued far less often here — though it remains real wherever a jurisdiction or employer requires it. This module works through why that is, the ASQ Six Sigma and APICS/ASCM certifications the field relies on instead, and the two professional skills every one of this program's real projects actually depended on: managing resistance to change, and never letting an improvement look better on paper than it actually performed.
By the end of this module you should be able to explain why resistance to a process change is rarely irrational, why involving the people affected by a redesign in designing it is the most reliable countermeasure, and why an honest, measured baseline is the entire premise every worked calculation in this program has been built on from Module 1 forward.