Why Our Business Science and Industrial Technology Program
is our Best Undergraduate Degree
Adapted and excerpted from Zippia-The Career Expert
[https://www.zippia.com/industrial-engineer-jobs/ ] which finds that the entry salary for Industrial Engineering jobs is $59,000 and average salary is $77,000, noting:
“When compared to other jobs, industrial engineer careers are projected to have a growth rate described as “faster than average” at 8% from 2018 through 2028. This is in accordance with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. What’s more is that the projected number of opportunities that are predicted to become available for a industrial engineer by 2028 is 23,800.
On average, industrial engineers earn $77,135 per year, which translates to $37.08 an hour. Generally speaking, industrial engineers earn anywhere from $59,000 to $99,000 a year, which means that the top-earning industrial engineers make a whopping $40,000 more than the ones at the lower end of the spectrum.”
Also from Zippia: “Industrial engineers typically do the following:
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- •Review production schedules, engineering specifications, process flows, and other information to understand methods that are applied and activities that take place in manufacturing and services
- •Figure out how to manufacture parts or products, or deliver services, with maximum efficiency
- •Develop management control systems to make financial planning and cost analysis more efficient
- •Enact quality control procedures to resolve production problems or minimize costs
- •Design control systems to coordinate activities and production planning in order to ensure that products meet quality standards
- •Confer with clients about product specifications, vendors about purchases, management personnel about manufacturing capabilities, and staff about the status of projects
- Industrial engineers apply their skills to many different situations, from manufacturing to healthcare systems to business administration. For example, they design systems for moving heavy parts within manufacturing plants
- •Delivering goods from a company to customers, including finding the most profitable places to locate manufacturing or processing plants
- •Evaluating job performance
- •Paying workers
Industrial engineers focus on how to get the work done most efficiently, balancing many factors, such as time, number of workers needed, available technology, actions workers need to take, achieving the end product with no errors, workers’ safety, environmental concerns, and cost.
To find ways to reduce waste and improve performance, industrial engineers study product requirements carefully. Then they use mathematical methods and models to design manufacturing and information systems to meet those requirements most efficiently.
Their versatility allows industrial engineers to engage in activities that are useful to a variety of businesses, governments, and nonprofits. For example, industrial engineers engage in supply chain management to help businesses minimize inventory costs, conduct quality assurance activities to help businesses keep their customer bases satisfied, and work in the growing field of project management as industries across the economy seek to control costs and maximize efficiencies.”
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Tucked away on the Blue Marble University website are two amazing Business Science and Industrial Technology Degrees:
(1) Our four year online BS/MBS in Business Science Degree, and
(2) Our four year online BBS/MBS in Industrial Technology Degree
The Curricula are identical, compare https://bluemarbleuniversity.com/online-business-management-programs/ to https://bluemarbleuniversity.com/industrial-technology/
For our Business Science Degree, we say:
Industrial Engineering is the best business preparation you can have. From a business standpoint, and why this course is listed under Business Science, “Industrial engineers work to eliminate waste of time, money, materials, man-hours, machine time, energy and other resources that do not generate value… Industrial engineering is concerned with the development, improvement, and implementation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, and materials” [Wikipedia].
In short, business management!!!
Here is what we did. We took business management, and blended it with the four major industries: Food, Water, Oil, and Global Transport to give a specific focus and not just general material. You will learn business practices specific to these industries. And we called our program: Industrial Technology.
Why “Industrial Technology”??
This program is designed for the person that wants a business career, or who desires to work in industry, or for federal and state regulatory agencies.
Graduates of our program are expected to find positions in a major industry (food, water, oil, or global transportation), and to serve primarily in supervisory and administrative positions. The curriculum says it all, and we feel our offering is not only unique, but can be handled by students of average intelligence. And a degree in Industrial Technology will “get you in the door” to an interview, and is way superior to a general business degree, due to its being unusual and also being perceived as of higher calibre.
And because we don’t waste your time with superfluous humanities courses, second language courses and general studies…we are all business…we can include a Masters Degree in Business Science within the 4 year program you can enter right out of high school (or begin after 10th grade in some circumstances).
We believe this program to be the best preparation for business careers and therefore, we only offer this one MBA-equivalent business program.
So, say good bye to the usual “MBA” that “everyone else” gets, and present yourself with a combined Bachelor/Masters Degree in Business Science.
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And for our second related program, BBS/MBS in Industrial Technology Degree, we call it: Industrial Technology-Engineering Without the Math.
What is “Industrial Technology”?? From Wikipedia we have: Industrial Technology includes wide ranging subject matter, which is an amalgamation of industrial engineering and buiness topics with more focus on the practicality and management of technical systems and less focus on the actual engineering of those systems.
Graduates of our program are expected to find positions in major industries (food, water, oil, or global transportation), and to serve primarily in supervisory and administrative positions.
When we lightly refer to our program as engineering without the math, we do not mean no math!! We mean that advanced engineering mathematics will not be required. Typical business math, how to read corporate financial reports, and other relevant computational skills will be covered.
The curriculum says it all, and we feel our offering is not only unique, but can be handled by students of average intelligence. And a degree in Industrial Technology will “get you in the door” to an interview, and is way superior to a general business degree, due to its being unusual and also being perceived as of higher calibre.
Because of the mass of material that needs to be covered, we needed 4 years of study to make this degree worth anything. But we feel it is 4 years well spent, particularly since our program can be done part-time by working adults, previous home schoolers, and others.
For our combined BBS/MBS (4 year program) we go deep into the main global technologies: Food, Oil/Energy, Water, Global Transportation (including Modern Railroading). A graduate of this new kind of business program will have the tools and the industry specific language to obtain employment with the largest global companies. You will be hired because you understand their business. Again, we don’t spend any time on superfluous humanities courses, second language courses and general studies…we are all business. This is a terrific, novel, innovative program, the graduates of which will be in high demand. This program focuses on:
•Big Oil: Exploration, Transport, Management, Chemistry, Reserves, Sale and Marketing, Permits, Clean Coal Processing
•Water Resources: Production, Filtration Technology, Ocean Energy, Waste Water, Water Chemistry, Management, Salt Water Separation, EPA Regulations
•Food Technologies: Packaging, Preservation, Distribution, Additives, Regulations
•Global Transportation: Modern Railroading, River Transport, Air Cargo, Sea Cargo, Ports and Port Mechanics, Shipping and Tanker Leasing
This new kind of business engineering program explores “real world” situations. It is offered to any high school graduate, although, those students who have done well in science and/or math will have the most fun with the program. After all, “industry” is about numbers…
The Curriculum for BOTH programs is here:
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Year 2 |
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Online Portfolio (1): Introduction to blogging and your online reputation. Students will establish the outline for their personal website and publish it to the internet for gradual revision and development 3 Credits | Food Distribution: The state of the industry relating to distribution processes. The course includes consideration of import and export procedures and regulations regarding rice, wheat, corn and other commodities. 3 Credits |
| Financial Accounting (for non-accountants): Course introduces the basics of business accounting 3 Credits |
Food Storage: A discussion of all the different types of storage techniques relating to different food and commodities. The course also covers global food supplies and what the future holds for food shortages. 3 Credits | |
| Information Systems (IT): The course introduces the kinds of data businesses have, how it is managed, including a survey of data base software, and Personnel Management records. 3 Credits | Online Portfolio (2): Research Project. This segment requires a research project to be completed and published to the student’s online website. Updating and development of the student’s digital portfolio are stressed. The subject of the project will be determined jointly by the student and faculty and must demonstrate the student’s writing ability and mastery of a topic. 3 Credits | |
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2 |
Internet Business Research: The student will master using the internet to locate trade journals, annual reports, industry specific information and data. 3 Credits | Water Resources:What they are, who has them, and how control is effected. This course necessarily relates to natural water resources. The course introduces the business of water. 3 Credits |
| Reading Financial Statements: No where can more information about a company and its business be found than by studying annual reports. The course covers how to find annual reports, and how to analyze the information presented, particularly with respect to business operations, financial strength of the company. Companies involved in Oil, Water, Food, and Transport will be emphasized. 3 Credits | Water Chemistry: The properties of water, including natural and artificial additives, and contaminants. Testing and analysis procedures. 3 Credits | |
| Business Law:Contracts and the UCC, including Bills of Lading: The course covers business law basics with emphasis on contracts 3 Credits |
Water Production and Filtration Technology. Manufacturing processes and filtration technologies. 3 Credits | |
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3 |
Human Resources: The course covers personnel practices, and state and federal safety regulations and labor law. The purpose of the course is to prepare graduates for management positions as well as company entry level positions. One of the easiest ways for a graduate to enter an industry is via employment in a company’s personnel office. 3 Credits | Saltwater Separation: the production of water from the sea. Large scale facilities are studied and possible new approaches are investigated. Also reviewed is the means of obtaining water from glaciers, the north and south poles.4 Credits |
| Food Technology: An overview of quality control practices and manufacturing processes. 3 Credits | Wastewater:The water nobody wants. How to treat it using chemical and biological methods. How to get clean water from waste water. A review of companies engaged in this field, as well as the consideration of cost analyses, and the new technologies. 4 Credits | |
| Food Preservation and Packaging: Kinds of packaging and preservation techniques with emphasis on meats, seafood, vegetables,including costs analyses. 3 Credits |
Colloquium and Independent research: We pull together the concepts previously covered and the student conducts literature investigation or field exercise in some aspect of interest, for publication on his/her digital portfolio. 4 Credits |
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Online Portfolio (3): The student is guided in connection with both the procedure for citing publications and sources, as well as review and updating of the Online Portfolio. In this segment we concentrate on video and audio techniques to refine the portfolio, make it exciting to visit, and how to give it a professional look. 4 Credits | Big Oil: An outline of this massive global industry that is still making ordinary people wealthy is presented. Topics covered include: the basics of oil and gas production from reservoir to sales point; common terminology for equipment; basic oil and gas field concepts, the wellhead and other equipment. 4 Credits |
| Global Transportation Systems: Overview and identity of trade journals 4 Credits |
Oil and Gas Transport:Transmission and processing. 4 Credits | |
| River Transport: Moving goods on the major international and domestic rivers 4 Credits |
Oil Chemistry: A massive topic, we focus on the business aspects and companies involved in producing products from oil and gas. 4 Credits | |
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2 |
Modern Railroading (1): The systems, the new technologies, the biggest lines, international and domestic. 4 Credits | Oil Reserves and Sales:How oil is sold internationally, the “price of a barrel” of oil, oil as a commodity. 4 Credits |
| Modern Railroading (2):Cross border connections, oil shale and oil products, foods, and cargo. 4 Credits | Shale oil and Fracking: An exploration of the technique and controversies. 4 Credits |
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| Ocean Shipping:Includes tanker shipping and leasing. The purpose of the course is to investigate the special language and procedures involved in this industry, including insurance issues 4 Credits | Clean Coal Processing: The techniques for extracting oil and energy from coal. A comparison of costs of processing oil and coal is made. 4 Credits | |
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Air Cargo: What can and can’r be shipped. Methods of shipping and packaging for shipping. 4 Credits | Colloquium: A discussion and study of a current topic of interest within the oil industry 4 Credits |
| Shipping Paperwork and Freight Forwarding: The business of International and cross-border freight forwarding is presented. 4 Credits | Oil and Gas Careers:Where the jobs are what kinds of jobs are available is presented. This course explores this topic from the business side of the oil industry through a review of the major players and study of annual reports 4 Credits | |
| Independent Study Project: With guidance from the faculty, the student will prepare a research paper on some topic involved in global transportation. This will involve internet based research into the business of global transportation and a polished, professional presentation of findings and results. 4 Credits | Online Portfolio (4): Similar to a “masters thesis”, the student, with the guidance of the faculty, puts the finishing touches on their digital portfolio. A final research paper will be required for inclusion in the final Online Portfolio. 4 Credits |
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More about Blue Marble University Undergraduate Degrees can be found here: https://bluemarbleuniversity.com/blue-marble-university-undergraduate-degrees/
If you are a home schooler, or high school 10th grader, or high school graduate, our affordable 4 year combined Bachelor and Masters Degree program in Business Science or Industrial Technology are the best and most useful undergraduate programs!
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