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Career Focus Areas

The Career Focus Area is comprised of three classes (nine semester hours) that represent each student's career interest upon graduation. Six of the nine semester hours should include upper-division course work. Certain career focus areas, however, may require more than nine semester hours depending on course pre-requisites. A student desiring a focus area other than those listed below is invited to create his or her own that concentrates on a professional service area. For more information, see your academic advisor.

The currently identified focus areas and approved courses include:

Students select a minimum of nine semester hours (at least six upper-division hours) from one of the following career-focused study areas

1. Electronics Manufacturing

  • EEE 352 Properties of Electronic Materials (4)
  • EEE 435 Microelectronics (3)
  • EEE 436 Fundamentals of Solid State Devices (3)

Students choosing the Electronics Manufacturing Career Focus Area are required to take at least one upper division Industrial Engineering technical elective

2. Entrepreneurship

  • FSE 394 Creating a Technology Venture (3)
  • FSE 394 Launching a Technology Venture (3)
  • FSE 494 Operating a Tech Venture (3)
  • FSE 494 Entrepreneurship Practicum (3)

Entrepreneurship classes are limited to students who have been admitted into the Entrepreneurship Certificate Program.

3. Global Industrial Engineering Leadership

  • ECN 306 Survey of International Economics (3)
  • MGT 302 Principles of International Business (3)
  • MGT 400 Cultural Factors in International Business (3)

Students choosing the Global Industrial Engineering Leadership Career Focus Area are required to take at least one upper division Industrial Engineering technical elective

4. Human Factors

  • IEE 437 Human Factors Engineering (3)
  • PGS 306 Environmental Psychology (3)
  • PGS 430 Industrial Psychology (3)

5. Industrial Management Systems
Select three (3) from the following list.  One must be an IEE course.

  • IEE 368 Facilities Analysis and Design (3) or IEE 369 Work Analysis and Design (3)
  • IEE 431 Engineering Administration (3)
  • IEE 437 Human Factors Engineering (3)
  • IEE 463 Computer Aided Manufacturing and Control (3)
  • MAE 351 Manufacturing Processes (3)
  • FSE 301 Entrepreneurship for Engineers (3)
  • one 300-level or higher approved business course

Entrepreneurship classes are limited to students who have been admitted into the Entrepreneurship Certificate Program.

6. IE Mastery
(For use in the integrated BS/MS program)

  • IEE 5XX (3)I
  • IEE 5XX (3)
  • IEE 5XX (3)

At least two of the three IEE Mastery Career Focus courses must be from the Master’s Core Class list.

7. Industrial Statistics

  • STP 425 Stochastic Processes (3)
  • STP 429 Experimental Statistics (3)
  • SCM 440 Quality Management/Measurement (3)

Students choosing the Industrial Statistics Career Focus Area are required to take at least one upper division Industrial Engineering technical elective

8. Information and Telecommunications Systems

  • IEE 405 Developing Information Systems Applications (3)
  • MAT 420 Scientific Computing (3)
  • Any approved upper division Information and Telecommunications elective (3)

9. Manufacturing

  • MAE 351 Manufacturing Processes (3)
  • IEE 463 Computer Aided Manufacturing and Control (3)
  • MSE 470 Polymers and Composites (3)

10. Operations Research

  • IEE 498 OR in Health Care (3)
  • IEE 498 Urban Operations Research (3)
  • MAT 300 Mathematical Structures (3)
  • MAT 451 Mathematical Modeling (3)

11. Pre-professional Service Systems
(Intended for students planning on professional careers in law or medicine)

  • IEE 498 OR in Health Care (3)
  • Six hours of approved courses (6)

12. Supply Chain and Logistics

  • IEE 462* Distribution Systems (3)
  • SCM 355** Supply Management (3)
  • IEE 4XX*** Introduction to International Logistics Systems (3) or IEE 4XX Production Systems (3)

*Distribution Systems class to be developed
**Logistics of letting IE students into SCM class being arranged
***Course numbers yet to be determined, but will be cross-listed as graduate classes

13. Urban Systems

  • IEE498* Urban Operations Research (3)
  • IEE 498 OR in Health Care (3)
  • GPH 373 Geographic Information Science I (3) or MAT 451 Mathematical Modeling (3)

*Omnibus number.  Course to be developed for delivery in Fall 2008 or Spring 2009

Notes:

Certain focus areas may require more than nine semester hours due to course prerequisites.

A minimum grade of “C” (2.00) is required for all IEE courses.

A student desiring a focus area other than those listed is invited to create his or her own that concentrates on a professional service area. The student is expected to formulate a set of three courses (nine semester hours) that supports his or her career option. The student needs to submit a petition to the department that explains and supports the focus and the courses selected. The director of undergraduate studies must approve the petition before the student begins study in the focus area. For more information, see the IE academic advisor.
 


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