Industrial Engineering Degree
Students must also complete the Undergraduate Registration Requirement and the degree requirements of their home school.
Requirements (48 units)
Core Courses (27 units) 1
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| 4 mathematics courses | |
| 4 units of basic science chosen according to McCormick basic science guidelines | |
| 4 engineering analysis and computer proficiency courses | |
| Engineering Analysis I and Engineering Analysis II and Engineering Analysis III | |
| Honor Engineering Analysis and Honors Engineering Analysis and Honors Engineering Analysis | |
| ES_APPM 245-0 | Elementary Applied Linear Algebra |
| 3 design and communications courses | |
| 7 social sciences/humanities courses | |
| 5 unrestricted electives | |
Major Program (21 units)
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 engineering economics course | |
| Economics and Finance for Engineers 2 | |
| 3 computer programming courses | |
| Fundamentals of Computer Programming | |
| Fundamentals of Computer Programming 1.5 | |
| Data Management & Information Processing | |
| 6 industrial engineering methods core courses | |
| Probability | |
| Statistics | |
| Statistical Learning for Data Analysis | |
| Foundations of Optimization | |
| Stochastic Models | |
| Discrete Event Systems Simulation | |
| 1 production and logistics course chosen from the options below | |
| Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis | |
| Operations Engineering and Management | |
| Service Engineering and Management | |
| Introduction to Health Systems Management | |
| 1 client project course | |
| Industrial Engineering Client Project Challenge | |
| 5 IEMS elective courses | |
| 4 general technical elective courses chosen from areas below | |
Any IEMS course not applied towards another degree requirement | |
Any 200-level or higher course in McCormick, excluding CRDV and PRDV courses | |
Any 200-level or higher course in Biology, Chemistry or Physics, except for exclusions listed below | |
Any 300-level or higher course in Math or MMSS, except for exclusions listed below | |
The following courses may not be used as General Technical Electives: CHEM 201-0, MATH 310-1, MATH 311-1, MATH 314-0, MATH 385-0, MATH 386-1, PHYSICS 311-1, PHYSICS 311-2, PHYSICS 335-0 | |
May include up to 2 units of IEMS 399-0 | |
At most 2 General Technical Electives may be taken P/N; no other electives may be taken P/N. | |
- 1
See general requirements for details.
- 2
May not be taken with or after KELLG_FE 310-0 Principles of Finance; see adviser for alternatives.
- Students may earn one or more of five optional three-course concentrations.
- Available concentrations and requirements may be obtained from the department.
- Each concentration must include two courses not used towards any other IEMS concentration, and must include one course outside IEMS.
- Courses used to fulfill major requirements may be used towards concentrations.
- Students may not earn a concentration if receiving a major, minor or certificate in an area with substantial overlap.
Major Program Electives
Industrial Engineering/Operations Research Electives
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| 3 courses chosen from the following list. Course used towards Production & Logistics requirement may not be used here. | |
| Quality Improvement by Experimental Design | |
| Data Science and Analytics | |
| Optimization Methods in Data Science | |
| Analytics for Social Good | |
| Intro to Financial Engineering | |
| Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis | |
| Operations Engineering and Management | |
| Service Engineering and Management | |
| Introduction to Health Systems Management | |
| Special Topics in Industrial Engineering (pre-approved topics only) | |
Management Science Electives
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| 2 courses chosen from: | |
| Engineering Entrepreneurship | |
| Qualitative Methods in Engineering Systems | |
| Social Networks Analysis | |
| Organizational Behavior | |
| Project Management for Engineers | |
| Whole-Brain Leadership | |
| Negotiations and Conflict Resolution for Engineers | |
| Special Topics in Industrial Engineering (pre-approved topics only) | |
Other Approved Non-engineering Technical Electives
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| BUS_INST 301-0 | Accounting |
| BUS_INST 302-0 | Marketing Management |
| BUS_INST 303-0 | Leadership in Organizations |
| ECON 309-0 | Public Finance |
| ECON 331-0 | Economics of Risk and Uncertainty |
| ECON 336-0 | Analytic Methods for Public Policy Analysis |
| ECON 339-0 | Labor Economics |
| ECON 349-0 | Industrial Economics |
| ECON 350-0 | Monopoly Competition & Public Policy |
| ECON 355-0 | Transportation Economics and Public Policy |
| ECON 360-2 | Investments |
| ECON 362-0 | International Finance |
| ECON 371-0 | Economics of Energy |
| ECON 380-1 | Game Theory |
| ECON 380-2 | Game Theory |
| ECON 381-1 | Econometrics |
| ECON 381-2 | Econometrics |
| IMC 303-0 | Integrated Marketing Communications Strategy |
| ISEN 220-0 | Introduction to Energy Systems for the 21st Century |
| ISEN 230-0 | Climate Change and Sustainability: Ethical Dimensions |
| LOC 306-0 | Studies in Organizational Change |
| LOC 311-0 | Tools for Organizational Analysis |
| STAT 302-0 | Data Visualization |
| STAT 320-3 | Statistical Theory & Methods 3 |
| STAT 325-0 | Survey Sampling |
| STAT 328-0 | Causal Inference |
| STAT 330-1 | Applied Statistics for Research 1 |
| STAT 332-0 | Statistics for Life Sciences |
| STAT 344-0 | Statistical Computing |
| STAT 348-0 | Applied Multivariate Analysis |
| STAT 352-0 | Nonparametric Statistical Methods |
| STAT 353-0 | Advanced Regression |
| STAT 354-0 | Time Series Modeling |
| STAT 355-0 | Analysis of Qualitative Data |
| STAT 356-0 | Hierarchical Linear Models |
| STAT 357-0 | Introduction to Bayesian Statistics |
| STAT 365-0 | Introduction to the Analysis of Financial Data |
| STAT 370-0 | Human Rights Statistics |