UGrad Handbook
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
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The Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is
concerned with how best to organize resources -- people, money, and materials
-- to produce and distribute successful products and services. Degree programs
in IEEM are designed to equip students with strong theoretical backgrounds, but
are oriented toward applied problem solving.
Areas of teaching and research specialty in the department include:
Production and Operations Management -- The design, scheduling and
control of production and operating systems using mathematical, computational,
and other analytical techniques.
Financial Decision Making -- Use of financial models and analytical
procedures for evaluating investment and financing decisions by firms.
Engineering Risk Analysis -- Engineering design decisions under
uncertainty, systems reliability, and economics of safety and risk
management.
Organizational Design, Control, and Management -- Behavior of the
individual, the work group, and the organization as they relate to issues of
design, motivation, attitudes, productivity, performance evaluation and
control.
Engineering Management -- Management of technology and other issues
peculiar to technology-based firms.
The Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering is planned to serve those
students whose long-run objective is the planning, design, and implementation
of complex economic and technological management systems where a scientific or
engineering background is necessary or desirable. Engineering fundamentals are
stressed. There is also a heavy emphasis on the use of mathematical and
statistical modeling.
Sophomore year courses include: probability, engineering-economy, accounting,
and computer science (two quarters). Junior year courses include: statistical
inference, introduction to optimization and stochastic processes and models
(two quarters), quality control and assurance, manufacturing systems design,
and organizational theory and management. Senior year courses include:
introduction to financial decisions, analysis of production and operating
systems, introduction to information systems and electives. In addition, an
IEEM senior takes a one-quarter group project course which gives the student
the opportunity to formulate and solve problems and implement solutions for
organizations in the surrounding community.
In addition to the B.S.I.E. degree, the IEEM Department offers a Master of
Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, a Master
of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering (jointly with the Mechanical
Engineering Department), a joint Master of Science in IEEM and Electrical
Engineering, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering.
If you would like more information about our undergraduate, coterminal,
master's, or doctoral programs, please contact Lori Cottle in our main
department office, Terman Room 351.