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EPISODE · Feb 20, 2026 · 1 MIN

Trailer | Optimizing for Meaning - Now Streaming

from Problem Solved: The IISE Podcast · host Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

If you haven't streamed the full episode yet, make sure you don't miss it.Optimizing for Meaning: What Industrial Engineering Teaches Us About Balance and BurnoutIn this thoughtful and refreshingly honest conversation, Aly Kamel, an industrial and management engineering student at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, explores how core industrial engineering principles like input-process-output, value-added analysis, and constraint management can be applied to something far more personal: balance, burnout, and sustainable ambition.Aly challenges the idea that success means maximizing output at all costs. Instead, he reframes burnout not as a personal failure, but as a predictable system outcome, and one that can be redesigned.Industrial engineering isn’t just about factories and supply chains. It’s a mindset for designing systems that last.And the most important system you’ll ever design… might be yourself.Learn more about The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)Problem Solved on LinkedInProblem Solved on YouTubeProblem Solved on Instagram

If you haven't streamed the full episode yet, make sure you don't miss it.Optimizing for Meaning: What Industrial Engineering Teaches Us About Balance and BurnoutIn this thoughtful and refreshingly honest conversation, Aly Kamel, an industrial and management engineering student at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, explores how core industrial engineering principles like input-process-output, value-added analysis, and constraint management can be applied to something far more personal: balance, burnout, and sustainable ambition.Aly challenges the idea that success means maximizing output at all costs. Instead, he reframes burnout not as a personal failure, but as a predictable system outcome, and one that can be redesigned.Industrial engineering isn’t just about factories and supply chains. It’s a mindset for designing systems that last.And the most important system you’ll ever design… might be yourself.Learn more about The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)Problem Solved on LinkedInProblem Solved on YouTubeProblem Solved on Instagram

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