University Catalog 2023-2024

Industrial Engineering (PhD)

Degree Requirements

Required Course19
Seminar
Select a minimum of two 700-level ISE course approved in conjunction with the academic committee
See "Core Courses" listed below
Elective / Research Courses54
"Elective / Research Courses" are approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Total Hours73

Core Courses

Select a minimum of one course from each category:9
Human Factors and Ergonomics Category
Human Factors In Systems Design
Occupational Safety Engrg
Occupational Biomechanics
Human Information Processing
Human Performance Modeling
Manufacturing Systems Category
Manufacturing Process Engineering
Database Applications in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Product Manufacturing Engineering for the Medical Device Industry
Automated Systems Engineering
Production Systems Category
Design and Control of Production and Service Systems
Production Planning, Scheduling and Inventory Control
Theory of Activity Networks
Quality Engineering
Logistics Engineering
Systems Analytics and Optimization Category
Introduction to Operations Research
Introduction to Mathematical Programming
Linear Programming
Stochastic Models in Industrial Engineering
Simulation Modeling
Dynamic Programming
Applied Stochastic Models in Industrial Engineering
Queues and Stochastic Service Systems
Computer Simulation Techniques
Total Hours9

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Jingyan Dong
  • Shu-Cherng Fang
  • Yahya Fathi
  • Ola Lars Anders Harrysson
  • Julie Simmons Ivy
  • Russell E. King
  • Yuan-Shin Lee
  • Maria Esther Mayorga
  • Chan S. Nam
  • Rohan Ajit Shirwaiker
  • Julie Swann
  • Reha Uzsoy

Associate professors

  • Adolfo Escobedo
  • Michael G. Kay
  • Yunan Liu
  • Osman Yalin Ozaltin
  • Hong Wan
  • Xu Xu

Assistant Professors

  • Karen Boru Chen
  • Xiaolei Fang
  • Leila Hajibabai Dizaji
  • Jordan Kern
  • Benjamin A. Rachunok
  • Sara Shashaani
  • Zhuoting Yu

Practice/Research/Teaching Professors

  • Semra Sebnem Ahiska King
  • Fred Livingston
  • Brandon Mark McConnell
  • Nur Ozaltin
  • Kanton Tyrone Reynolds
  • Christopher Rock
  • Michael Spano
  • Harvey A. West II

Adjunct Professor

  • Amy Diane Wilson

Emeritus Faculty

  • Mahmoud A. Ayoub
  • Richard Harold Bernhard
  • Paul Cohen
  • Charles Thomas Culbreth Jr.
  • Thom Joel Hodgson
  • Henry Nuttle
  • Richard G. Pearson
  • Stephen Dean Roberts
  • Ezat Sanli
  • Clarence Smith Jr.
  • James Reed Wilson
  • Richard Wysk
  • Robert E. Young