A survey of the members of the primary association of industrial engineers (IEs) confirms that relatively few IEs work in government, especially for state and local governments. Underutilization exists despite evidence that IEs can improve governmental productivity through a variety of analytic techniques. More wide-spread use of IEs in government would be encouraged by forging stronger interdisciplinary ties between public administration and industrial engineering.
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Coe et al. (1993) studied this question.