http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research This is one of the things that Industrial Engineers actually

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research This is one of the things that Industrial Engineers actually do. In my opinion the pay is much too low for how hard the math is. Lots of linear/dynamic programming + statistics and all sorts of fun algorithms.