Program Objectives & Outcomes
Industrial Engineering IE Educational Objectives
Broad statements that describe the career and professional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve.
- Graduates will be prepared for successful professional practice in the field of Industrial Engineering in industries that are reflected in the Career Focus Areas of the department.
- Graduates with interest in advanced study are provided with opportunities for basic and applied research so as to have sufficient background for success in graduate school or other specialized interest areas.
IE Program Outcomes:
Narrower statements that describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. These relate to the skills, knowledge, and behaviors that students acquire in their matriculation through the program.
- OPERATIONS—Graduates will understand processes used to deliver high quality low cost and timely goods and services.
- MATH AND SCIENCES—Graduates will understand the mathematics and physical, social, and computer sciences underlying Industrial Engineering.
- BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS—Graduates will understand the business and economic concepts underlying success in today’s competitive global economy.
- MODELING—Graduates will have the ability to model complex IE systems using appropriate analytical, computational and experimental practices.
- DESIGN—Graduates will have the ability to design, develop, implement and improve IE systems of people, materials, information, capital, and energy so as to improve competitiveness.
- PROFESSIONALISM—Graduates will think, function and behave in a professional manner.