Ensuring efficient business processes is a complex and challenging engineering task. The profession of industrial engineering and management is one that involves planning, implementation, and improvement of business processes and integrated systems that contain various diverse resources: work teams, technology, information, materials, equipment, facilities, marketing mechanisms, and more. In an age of dizzying technological and business innovation, this is an interdisciplinary profession that requires knowledge in such diverse fields, such as mathematical and computational optimization, statistics, information systems, business and organizational processes, economics, and behavioral sciences.