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Industrial Engineering Program
Graduate Program
The Industrial Engineering Program offers exceptionally high quality graduate studies opportunities in select areas of industrial engineering. The Program offers both the MS degree and the PhD degree, with both thesis and non-thesis tracks for the MS degree available. Most of our thesis-based MS degree and PhD degree students are supported by a combination of research and teaching assistantships and fellowships.
Research Focus Areas
Human
Factors—The Human Factors area specializes in exploring how systems
fit the people who must operate them, determining the roles of people
with the systems, and selecting those people who can best fit particular
roles within these systems. Students who focus on Human Factors will be
able to work with a multidisciplinary team of faculty with strengths in
understanding cognitive behavior as it relates to automation, air and
ground transportation, medical studies, and space exploration.
Production
Systems—The Production Systems area develops new solutions in
areas such as engineering design, supply chain management (e.g. supply
chain system design, error recovery, large scale systems), manufacturing
(e.g. system design, planning and scheduling), and medicine (e.g. disease
diagnosis, discovery of medical knowledge). Students who focus on production
systems will be able to work on topics related to computational intelligence
theories for applications in industry, healthcare, and service organizations.
Reliability Systems—The objective of the Reliability Systems area is to provide students with advanced data analysis and decision making techniques that will improve quality and reliability of complex systems. Students who focus on system reliability and uncertainty will be able to work on areas related to contemporary reliability systems including integration of quality and reliability, simultaneous life cycle design for manufacturing systems, decision theory in quality and reliability engineering, condition-based maintenance and degradation modeling, discrete event simulation and decision analysis.
Emerging Area in Wind Power Management
The Wind Power Management Program aims at meeting the emerging needs for graduating professionals involved in design, operations, and management of wind farms deployed in massive numbers all over the country. The graduates will be able to fully understand the system and management issues of wind farms and their interactions with alternative and conventional power generation systems.
Courses, Admissions and Seminars
Information on graduate courses and admissions can be obtained by clicking on the sites below:
Graduate Handbook
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