Darwish, Hasan2017-06-082017-06-082017Darwish, H. 2017. Expanding industrial thinking by formalizing the industrial engineering identity for the knowledge era. Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Rabat, Morocco, 11-13 April. [http://ieomsociety.org/ieom2017/papers/354.pdf]http://hdl.handle.net/10394/24882http://ieomsociety.org/ieom2017/papers/354.pdfTo date, the formal identity of the Industrial Engineer remains vague. D ue to the broad knowledge base and application areas made available to Industrial Engineers, pinning down the commonality has proven difficult. This problem is further magnified by global forces shaping the knowledge era. Various works touch on some elemen ts that can help in forming an identity (such as IE skills, work preferences, thinking styles...etc) but they have not been combined into a common identity. To do so is no easy task but for the sake of the field it must be done. There is no doubt that IE kno wledge is valuable and has proven itself, but employers rarely hire a person with the title Industrial Engineer (rather it is process engineer, supply chain manager...etc). Defining this brand and identity can massively improve awareness about the field itse lf, create a resource to refer students to and help develop new application areas for industrial thinking and modernization of industrial methods . A modern understanding of the role of the Industrial Engineer can be established (namely that they are the co nnection to all fields of knowledge and a master of some) by developing an Industrial Engineer ing Identity and exemplifying the industrial thinking style by means of case studies on facing or shaping disruptive forces on the knowledge era . The research pre sentation shows that the key requirements for the dissertation are the d evelop ment of an Industrial Engineering identity, the definition of the unique features of Industrial thinking and the d emonstrate the value gained by designing artefacts with this new identity in mindenPresentation