EBIT's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering works towards the integration of contributions from all engineering disciplines into a functional and cost effective product by using systems knowledge and understanding. It focuses on supply chain management, enterprise engineering and optimisation and collaborates with the centre for Transport Development.

Industrial engineering is an extensive field of study since it consists of many diverse scientific disciplines with interfaces to various fields of study, from the sciences to engineering and management. It is able to integrate the contributions of all the other engineering disciplines into a final, functional and marketable product, at the lowest possible cost.