Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Germany

Industrial Engineering – Sales & Service Engineering

Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen – Sales & Service Engineering

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Industrial Engineering – Sales & Service Engineering at Furtwangen University

Language: German Studies in German
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
University website: www.hs-furtwangen.de

Definitions and quotes

Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering which deals with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations. Industrial engineers work to eliminate waste of time, money, materials, person-hours, machine time, energy and other resources that do not generate value. According to the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, they create engineering processes and systems that improve quality and productivity.
Sales
Sales is activity related to selling or the amount of goods or services sold in a given time period.
Engineering
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.
Thomas Tredgold (1828), used in the Royal Charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) published in: The Times, London, article CS102127326, 30 June 1828.
Engineering
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson in Freeman J. Dyson. Disturbing the universe. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-090771-6. 
Sales
Love and admiration are drowned in these astronomical figures.
Georges Duhamel, In Defense of Letters (1937), E. Bozman, trans. (1939), p. 110
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