University Catalog 2024-2025

Industrial Engineering (PhD)

Degree Requirements

Required Course1
Seminar
Core Courses18
Select Core courses from the list below. Core Courses should include a minimum of two 700-level ISE courses approved in conjunction with the academic committee
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:
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Human Factors In Systems Design
Occupational Safety Engrg
Occupational Biomechanics
Systems Safety Engineering
Human Information Processing
Human Performance Modeling
Advanced Problems in Ergonomics
Manufacturing Systems
Manufacturing Process Engineering
Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing
Introduction to Product Development
Automated Systems Engineering
Micro/Nano-Scale Fabrication and Manufacturing
Supply Chain and Logistics
Design and Control of Production and Service Systems
Modeling and Analysis of Supply Chains
Production Planning, Scheduling and Inventory Control
Theory of Activity Networks
Quality Engineering
Logistics Engineering
The Design of Production Systems
Systems Analytics and Optimization
Introduction to Operations Research
Linear Programming
Statistical Models for Systems Analytics in Industrial Engineering
Stochastic Models in Industrial Engineering
Simulation Modeling
Dynamic Programming
Applied Stochastic Models in Industrial Engineering
Queues and Stochastic Service Systems
Stochastic Simulation
Network Flows
Advanced Stochastic Simulation

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
  • Seyedmohammadhossein Hosseinian
  • Jordan Kern
  • Benjamin A. Rachunok
  • Sara Shashaani
  • Renran Tian
  • Zhuoting Yu

Practice/Research/Teaching Professors

  • Ashkan Corey Kiassat
  • 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