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The industrial engineering PE exam (Industrial and Systems)

Five areas carry 14‑21 questions each, from systems engineering to quality engineering. NCEES’s industrial engineering PE exam, Industrial and Systems, has 85 questions in 8.5 hours, costs $400 and runs on one day a year; this year’s exam was held on October 28, 2026.

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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

Industrial engineering PE exam topics

  • Systems engineering (14‑21): analysis and design tools, requirements analysis, modeling such as simulation and queuing, bottleneck and value analysis, project management.
  • Facilities engineering and planning (14‑21): process flow, layout design, space and capacity analysis, site selection, unit loads and material handling.
  • Operations engineering (14‑21): forecasting, production planning and scheduling, engineering economics, costing, inventory, distribution, warehousing and transportation.
  • Work design (14‑21): methods analysis, line balancing, work measurement and sampling, learning curves, safety codes, human limits and workplace design.
  • Quality engineering (14‑21): statistical process control, process capability, acceptance sampling, quality systems, process improvement, reliability and maintenance.

From the specifications first effective October 2020, updated in 2025.

What references does the industrial engineering PE exam use?

You get the NCEES reference handbook for the exam on screen; NCEES’s guide lists no design standards. Questions use SI and US units. NCEES’s May 2026 guide doesn’t list the 2027 date yet, so check MyNCEES.

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Sources: NCEES and 2 more. Checked October 2026.

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