Education in Industrial Engineering in Slovakia

Industrial engineers have played and play a decisive role as transmitters and introducers of progress. The balanced combination of a solid scientific and technical education, different applied technologies and disciplines within the economic-business and social-humanistic areas, the understanding that comes from reality of the industrial sector and the ability to interrelate various disciplines involved in complex system, makes these studies a current and innovative model, applied by many European universities. The focus is to present the education in Industrial engineering in the worldwide. Different approaches in education in Industrial engineering are compared. The best universities in Industrial engineering are listed. The main attention, in this article, is paid to Department of Industrial Engineering and management of Technical University of Košice. There are described history, study and research activities, and graduate profiles.