Industrial Engineering (PhD)

Admission Standards

The admission standards for the PhD program in industrial engineering are as follows:

  1. All admission applications for the program shall include:
    1. A completed graduate application for the Graduate School
    2. An application fee
    3. Results from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
    4. At least two letters of recommendation
    5. Statement of Purpose (include intended area of study and/or research interests)
    6. Resume 
    7. Official transcript(s) for all previous post-secondary coursework. All transcripts not in English must be certified as authentic and translated verbatim into English.
  2. The minimum requirement for admission is the baccalaureate degree or its equivalent from an accredited institution.
  3. The successful applicant will typically have an undergraduate grade point average of 3.00 or above (on a 4.00 scale).
  4. International students whose primary language is not English must show English language proficiency by either TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo score or demonstration of a degree awarded from an acceptable English language institution.  The successful applicant will typically have a TOEFL score of 79 or higher or overall IELTS score of 6.5 or higher or a Duolingo score of 105 or higher.

Program Requirements

Normally, it is expected that the student would have completed a master's degree before being admitted to the PhD Program. However, qualified applicants may be admitted directly to the doctoral program after receiving a baccalaureate degree. Such post-baccalaureate degree students will be required to complete an additional 30 credit hours of graduate coursework approved by the department's Director of PhD program. Also, remedial work may be specified for those applicants who, in the opinion of the faculty, do not have a sufficient background.

The PhD program has three different focus areas available: Data Analytics & Operations Research (DA-OR), Human Factors (HF), and Advanced Manufacturing (AM). The minimum curricular requirements for each focus area in the doctoral program are:

Post-Baccalaureate Coursework
Approved Master’s Level Coursework 130
Core Courses (Select two courses from a focus area below)6
Technical Electives 29
IE 700Dissertation Research in Industrial Engineering9
IE 695PhD Seminar 32
Minimum Total Hours56
1

Master's level coursework must be approved by the Department. 

2

Non-IE Electives must be approved by the department.

3

75% attendance (or excused absence approved by the Department) is required yearly until graduation and one presentation a year (or excused absence approved by the Department) is required by a Doctoral candidate until graduation. 


Focus Areas

Data Analytics & Operations Research 

IE 646Operations Research Methods3
IE 662Predictive Analytics for Decision Making I3
IE 663Predictive Analytics for Decision Making II3
IE 694Advanced Topics in IE (Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization OR Equivalent course approved by the department)3

Human Factors 

IE 671 Advanced Topics in Human Factors Engineering3
IE 675Usability Engineering3
IE 682Quality of Care and Patient Safety3
IE 684Health IT and Clinician Support3

Advanced Manufacturing 

IE 600Additive Manufacturing Processes3
IE 601Additive Manufacturing Structure Design3
IE 664Experimental Design in Engineering3