The members of the council are leaders in industry, many of whom are former students of the department. They meet on campus twice a year.
Their mission: to provide a continuing liaison between the department and the practicing profession for the purpose of improving the quality of the industrial engineering program at Texas A&M University.
Function 1: to assist in resource development to support the needs and programs of the department.
Function 2: to serve in an advisory capacity to the department head by making recommendations about the goals and programs of the department.
| Name | Email (antispam) | Job Title | Company |
| Kent Beran | Director, Production Operations & Manu. Improvement | Boeing Company | |
| Gary Cerny | Retired | Triple C Ranch | |
| Greg R. Clapp | Vice President Production and Operations Planning | Fujitsu Network Communications | |
| Ross B. George | Chairman | Five G Management LLC | |
| Karen Gleasman | Director, DAO Process Engn | Dell, Inc. | |
| Michael Haack, P.E. | Alaska District Manager | Halliburton Energy Services | |
| Stephen Johnson | Sr. Exec. VP for Business Dev | Washington Group International | |
| Victoria L. Hunter | Sr. Director, Manufacturing Operations | Applied Materials | |
| James Knickel | Director of Operations | Raytheon Systems | |
| Dean Liollio | President & CEO | Energy South, Inc | |
| James Menke | Planning Manager | Solectron Texas | |
| John Scott | President | Parsons Corporation | |
| Douglas W. Sellers | Partner | Accenture | |
| Lee Sneddon | Site Project Manager | Intel Corporation | |
| Rob Trimble | President & COO | TXU Electric Delivery | |