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Mission Statement

To serve society, with emphasis on the manufacturing and service sectors by

• providing undergraduate and graduate industrial and systems engineering education that prepares students to effectively apply engineering knowledge to the evaluation, design, and operation of complex industrial, service, and governmental systems comprised of people, equipment, and supplies through the application of modeling, measurement, and economic methods.
• contributing to the enrichment of the profession and to the development of knowledge through faculty leadership, scholarship and professional practice.
• meeting the needs of working professionals for continuing education in the fields of operations research, advances statistical methods, ergonomics and human factors, production planning and control and related topics.

Undergraduate Objectives

Revised 2004-05

The objectives of the ISE Program are to enable graduates to be performing in the following manner 3 to 5 years post graduation:

1. Function effectively as an ISE professional in any industry, government, or service organization designing or improving and implementing efficient business processes.
2. Use methodologies and computational skills to identify, formulate, and develop solutions for problems normally encountered in their organizations.
3. Collect, analyze, and interpret data efficiently and effectively to solve systems analysis and engineering problems.
4. Evaluate the impact of their proposed solutions to engineering problems in the broader context of the organization or society.
5. Effectively communicate using written, oral and electronic media to articulate technical problems and their proposed solutions.
6. Recognize the need for life-long learning and growth within their chosen profession and to be familiar with the strategies they may employ to accomplish this.

Undergraduate Learning Outcomes

1. Ability to apply knowledge of math, engineering and science
2. Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
3. Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
4. Ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
5. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
6. An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
7. Ability to communicate effectively
8. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in global, business and societal contexts
9. A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning
10. A knowledge of contemporary issues
11. An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modem engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.

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Graduate Educational Objectives

1. To prepare students to function effectively and provide leadership within an organization as an Industrial and Systems Engineering professional including an ability to form, facilitate, lead, coordinate and participate in teams as well as understand organizational process and behavior. Graduates should be able to work in interdisciplinary teams comprised of other disciplines, not only engineers, but allied fields such as computing and business. They should be able to recognize an "industrial engineering problem" and be able to articulate it properly.

2. To provide students the methodological and computational skills with which to operate effectively within the ISE problem domain, through training in problem representation, abstraction and validation. Graduates should be capable of accurately describing a problem at a level of specificity sufficient to characterize its fundamental attributes, i.e., determinism, uncertainty, discreteness, etc. Moreover, a graduate should be able to participate in the creation of mathematical models of problems and to delineate, at least broadly, the inherent level of complexity of the problem; that is, whether or not Ihe problem is likely to be resolved efficiently and by standard methodologies or whether it is likely to posses aspects that may make it less amenable to such approaches.

3. To train students relative to the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data relevant to problems arising in the ISE domain. Graduates should be able to gather information regarding a problem and or its representation in model form in order to draw inferences regarding model behavior and that support validation and refinement.

4. To prepare students to approach unstructured problems, to synthesize and design potential solutions and to evaluate the impact of their solutions in the broader context of the organization or society. Graduates should be capable of generating and validating solutions to a problem, of appraising the efficacy of various solution methodologies, of distinguishing among alternative solutions, and of measuring and understanding the impact of various solutions in the broader context

5. To prepare students to effectively present and sell solutions and to do so in the context of written, oral and electronic media. Graduates should be able to articulate findings clearly. This includes an understanding of subtleties that may exist in a model or its solution, sensitivities of solutions, and the effects of solution implementation.

6. To sensitize students to a need for and to provide an ability to accomplish life-long growth within the field/profession of industrial and systems engineering. Graduates should recognize contemporary developments in the profession and have an understanding of their implications. If this level of understanding is not present, they should pursue adult learning opportunities so that they are capable of interpreting basic professional-level technical publications of relevant developments.

Graduate Program Outcomes

Students will:

1. be able to function effectively and provide leadership within an organization.
2. be able to form, facilitate, lead, coordinate and participate in teams.
3. be able to understand organizational processes and behaviors.
4. have knowledge of methodological and computational skills with which to operate effectively.
5. be able to collect, analyze, and interpret data.
6. be able to approach unstructured problems and to synthesize and design solutions for this problem.
7. be able to evaluate the impact of these solutions in the broader context of the organization and society.
8. be able to effectively present and sell solutions in the form of written, oral and electronic media.
9. be able to accomplish life-long growth within the field/profession of ISE

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Assessment Schedules

undergraduate (doc)     graduate (doc)

Assessment Reports

undergraduate program: 
spring 2007 (doc)         fall 2007 (doc)

graduate program: 
spring 2007 (doc)        fall 2007 (doc)