Note from the Editor

"Disruption creates more choice and opportunities for agency. Maintaining relevance then requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of our choices." - Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption. The Strategic Role of Industrial Engineers in a Post-Tariff Global Economy In an era marked by protectionist policies and geopolitical turbulence, Industrial Engineers find themselves at the forefront of an economic recalibration. The resurgence of trade tariffs under President Donald Trump—particularly those targeting China, Mexico, Canada, and the European Union, and potentially also Africa with the AGOA agreement—disrupts long-established global supply chains, upended existing trade agreements, and forced multinational corporations to rethink the basis of their operations. In this new landscape, Industrial Engineering is not just relevant—it is indispensable.