I have to admit I was eager to read this because of the phrase "Industrial Engineering." Still an interesting article, and there is some discussion of component

I have to admit I was eager to read this because of the phrase "Industrial Engineering." Still an interesting article, and there is some discussion of components working together as a system... but overall, I think we're still talking about a somewhat mechanical innovation in aqueducts. I think it's probably more accurate to classify this one under civil engineering. Interesting and fun to read, but consistent with what most people already know about the Romans - they had remarkable large scale civil engineering projects. I don't want to drag this discussion into the minutiae of what distinguishes civil from mechanical from industrial engineering, especially since there's so much overlap (I met a lot of civil engineers in my graduate industrial engineering classes, especially from transportation engineering). But what I'm reading here doesn't really strike me as something that would be notably "industrial engineering," which I see as more abstracted from impressive mechanical innovations in infrastructure projects like aqueducts.