It is quite common to interview for a manufacturing engineering (ME) position when you are an industrial engineer. The position and interview here mean industrial engineering know-how is combined with other knowledge acquired from engineering disciplines such as mechanical engineering. If the job requirements for the interview are structured this way, the interviewer will combine a mixture of engineering-specific questions geared to those disciplines. Your course knowledge you gleaned from mechanical engineering classes that overlapped with your industrial engineering ones will come into play here.

Reciting the definitions for questions demonstrates your learning in mechanical engineering classes such as fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, physics, the strength of materials, heat transfer, materials science, mechanical design fundamentals.

The best answer to this question would be, 'Although they are often mistaken for each other, they are uniquely different. When it comes to materials, the pressure is the amount of force that is exerted per its unit area. Meanwhile, stress is the quantity of force exerted per unit area of the material.'