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Questions on career in engineering, defining time, keeping a record and setting up a continuous improvement steering committee are answered. If you like math and seat-of- the-pants engineering, and if you like working with people, IE might be a very good suggestion for you to pursue. Here is the definition of cycle time as included in ANSI Z94, the standard for Industrial Engineering Terminology: the time it takes in a physical distribution process to complete a process. Simply writing down what happens over a limited amount of time would provide a biased version of events. Estimating times to complete activities invariably would show the workers in the best light. Setting up a continuous improvement steering committee should be tackled as part of the entire plan to implement a continuous improvement program.