1. Course Requirements
Applicants having a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering are required to complete at least 90 credit hours in the Ph.D. program, subject to the following requirements:
1. At most 36 credits at the 5000 level.
2. At least 30 credits at the 6000 level or higher,
(not to include dissertation).
3. Maximum 18 credits outside the areas of Industrial
and Systems Engineering.
4. Minimum 24 credits of dissertation.
Applicants having a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from an accredited program are given a maximum of 30 transferred semester hours of coursework.
2. Qualifying Examination and Candidacy Requirements
Students must demonstrate graduate knowledge acquisition in three incremental stages in order to be awarded a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering:
Stage I Qualifying Exam (QE)
Stage II Proposal and Candidacy Defense
Stage III Final Defense
The Qualifying Exam will generally take place during the second year and must take place no later than the end of the second year. In the semester prior to his/her taking the Qualifying Exam, student must declare intention to take the exam and must declare a major area. In the event a student failed the Qualifying Exam, the student can retake it one more time in the subsequent semester.
The formal admission to Ph.D. candidacy occurs when the student successfully passes the Qualifying Exam, prepares a formal dissertation proposal, and successfully defends the content of the proposal before his/her advisory committee. Immediately following the proposal defense, the student’s dissertation committee will vote to admit the student to candidacy, to have the student resubmit the proposal within six months, or to dismiss the student from the Ph.D. program. A student can only resubmit his/her proposal once.
3. Program of Study
Each student in the proposed program must submit a program of study to his/her advisory committee before the beginning of the second year. The advisory committee and Graduate Program Director must approve the program of study. A program of study must include the following 12 core courses or equivalent for all students in the proposed program. These courses provide fundamental knowledge in enterprise systems engineering.
Students in the Ph.D. program must have the following prerequisite courses:
Optimization/Modeling:
ESI 6316 Applications of OR in Manufacturing
ESI 6524 Applied Industrial Systems Simulation
ESI 6547 Stochastic Models of Ind. Systems
Systems Design:
EIN 5346 Logistics Engineering
EIN 6117 Advanced Industrial Information Systems
EIN 6133 Enterprise Engineering
Information Systems/Communications:
ESI 5602 Eng. Data Representation & Modeling
ESI 5603 Advanced Software Tools for ISE
TCN 6820 Ind. Development of Telecommunications
Engineering Management:
EIN 6336 Adv. Production Planning and Control
EIN 6357 Advanced Engineering Economy
Human Factors:
EIN 5256 Usability Engineering
The remaining credits of coursework are electives courses to provide the student with a focus research area. The student’s advisory committee must approve these electives.
