Python package"Business? I thought this website was about engineering!"
This site is about engineering. That is why there is a business section.
Contrary to the opinions of many engineering students, particularly freshmen, engineering is not a playground for science, mathematics, and technology. Engineering is not a game.
Engineering is about the application of scientific and mathematical principles to solve practical problems. Someone is paying to have those problems solved, and since money is a factor, business decisions come into play. "Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any schlub can do with two." (I can't attribute the quote, but I admit is it not mine.)
If you're not doing your level best within the law, safety concerns, and engineering ethics to save the owner money, you are not practicing engineering. You're playing a game with someone else's money.
In particular, industrial engineering is criticized as "imaginary engineering". So, let's do a little thought experiment. Let's say for a minute that industrial engineering didn't exist. You would then have engineers on one side, and business personnel on the other, and chances are very high that the two sides can't even begin to understand each other. Now let's bring back industrial engineering. How valuable is it to have someone be able to translate between the two groups? Accountants don't typically have an understanding of the physical sciences, and engineers (other than industrial) typically don't have an understanding of finance and accounting. The industrial engineer understands both. Industrial engineers work at the interfaces of engineering/business systems. That's right, systems.
Engineering doesn't happen without business.