- The industrial and manufacturing engineering (IME) department faculty are committed to educational success. Class sizes are small, allowing individual attention for each student.
- Many of the IME department faculty have won awards for excellence in research and teaching. Several are international experts in their concentrations.
- Students in the WSU manufacturing engineering (MfgE) program have many opportunities to work on real problems in local companies as part of their course requirements.
- They also have the opportunity to participate in cooperative education, a voluntary program in which students gain real engineering work experience while going to school.