Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Undergraduate Program

B.S. in Industrial Engineering
The ABET accredited curriculum provides a basic preparation in science and engineering along with a core of industrial engineering courses. Students can choose a focus area for a set of electives including management, operations research, manufacturing, enterprise computing and information engineering, and human factors.

Focus Areas
Engineering Management
Learn strategies necessary for solving internal and external problems of a company in areas such as production, quality, project management, sales, and marketing strategies.

Human Factors
Learn about the relationships between people and their work tasks, machines, information, and environment.

Operations Research
Learn how to make good engineering decisions using quantitative models and methods for production and service systems such as, inventory control, scheduling, transportation, and logistics.

Manufacturing Systems
Learn how to design, analyze, operate, and control manufacturing processes and systems.

Enterprise Computing
Learn how to integrate and use information from the functional units of an enterprise as well as between multiple enterprises.

Learning experiences
Problem based learning and hands-on laboratory experience are major components of the program.

Course work
Each semester has an average of 15-16 credit hours of course work. A total of 120.5 credit hours is required for graduation.

More details can be found in the Undergraduate Handbook.

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Combined Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (B.S. IE) and Master of Business Administration (MBA)