Time and methods engineering is the aspect of industrial engineering concerned with the analysis and design of work methods and systems, including technological selection of operations or processes, specification of equipment type and location, design of manual and worker-machine tasks. May include the design of controls to insure proper levels of output, inventory, quality, and cost. Industrial engineering is the engineering discipline that concerns the design, development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, material and process. ...
In organizational development (OD), work design is the application of Socio-Technical Systems principles and techniques to the humanization of work. ...
Reference
Work Design & Measurement, IE Terminology, 2000 Revised Edition
Software engineering (SE) is the profession of people who create and maintain software systems by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains and other fields.
Software Engineering is considered by many to be an engineering discipline because there are pragmatic approaches and expected characteristics of engineers.
Experimental software engineering is a branch of software engineering interested in devising experiments on software, in collecting data from these experiments, and in devising laws and theories from this data.