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2013-2014 Graduate Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Department of Industrial Engineering


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The Department of Industrial Engineering offers graduate study with an emphasis in five primary areas:

  • manufacturing and production systems
  • logistics and distribution
  • operations research
  • ergonomics/safety/ human factors engineering
  • engineering management.

Research within these areas encompasses such topics as

  • computer integrated manufacturing
  • robotics
  • rapid prototyping
  • simulation
  • logistics
  • supply chain management
  • production planning and inventory control
  • scheduling
  • facilities planning and design
  • project management
  • ergonomics
  • safety
  • human factors
  • large-scale optimization
  • stochastic optimization
  • queuing theory

The department emphasizes the implementation of problem solving methodologies for production and service industries. The department has state-of-the-art laboratories and computation facilities including the Enterprise Logistics Laboratory (ELL), the Systems Optimization and Computing Laboratory (SOCL), the Advanced Automation and Rapid Prototyping Laboratory, the Ergonomics and Human Factors Laboratory, and the Undergraduate Computation Laboratory.

Programs

    MasterDoctoralJoint

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