Graduate Catalog Colleges Cullen College of Engineering Degrees Offered Industrial EngineeringGraduate Degrees and Certificates: Cullen College of Engineering
Department of Industrial Engineering
The Department of Industrial Engineering offers graduate study with emphasis in five primary areas: manufacturing and production systems, logistics and distribution, operations research, ergonomics/safety/ human factors engineering, and 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, and 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.
Degrees Offered
Master of Science Thesis Option
- Industrial Engineering
Master of Science Non-Thesis Option
- Aerospace Engineering
Master of Engineering
- Industrial Engineering (MIE)
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Industrial Engineering
Catalog Publish Date: January 14, 2013
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