Abstract :
Industrial engineering degree curriculum has many courses, supply chain management, production planning and so on. However there is need to introduce new course in industrial engineering degree curriculum, creative industrial engineering. This course will apply industrial engineering in a creative way. At the end of day, industrial engineering is about optimisation and optimisation can be done in a creative way. Such an Industrial Engineering is also Down to Earth. Such an Industrial Engineering is creative. In that it generates ideas that have not been thought before. Creativity is defined as generating something new and original. This course will be designed by industrial engineering teachers who have taken extensive and intensive training in creative thinking, design thinking, lateral thinking etc. They will apply the principles learnt in creative thinking, design thinking and lateral thinking to the problems of industrial engineering.
