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Master of Science in Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management

Overview

The graduate program in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management draws on LAU’s substantial and growing experience in undergraduate industrial engineering education to provide those coming from other engineering disciplines a significant opportunity to specialize in the management and optimization of engineering systems. This program responds to a national need for engineers that can manage and improve integrated systems of people, materials, information, facilities, and technology.

The graduate program in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is essentially a hybrid program that is built by combining specialized knowledge bases leading to a non-traditional interdisciplinary education. The knowledge bases referred to here as concentrations areas consist in part of elective graduate-level courses from Industrial, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering programs, and graduate courses from Computer Science, Economics, Business, and International affairs graduate programs.

Mission

The mission of the graduate program in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is to capitalize on skills and theories learned in disciplines other than Industrial Engineering to uniquely prepare students for successful engineering management careers.

Admission Requirements

Applicants for admission to this program must have a Bachelor of Science in Engineering or a Bachelor of Engineering degree from a recognized university with a minimum grade point average (GPA) equivalent to 2.75 (on a 4-point scale) general or 2.75 in the major.

The GRE general exam is required of all applicants (GRE subject exams are not required). All applicants must submit scores for the GRE general exam (includes verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and analytical writing scores). Your GRE test scores are an important part of your application. GRE test scores that are more than 5 years old will not be accepted.

The admissions committee considers several factors when making admission decisions: your academic performance at prior institutions (grades, rankings, and GPAs) and your GRE test score. The rate of graduate assistantship (GA), when requested, is directly related to your GPA and GRE scores. Letters of recommendation are optional; however, three letters are recommended, two of which to be completed by faculty who are familiar with your academic performance.

Program Objectives

The objectives of the graduate program in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management are to:

  1. Provide engineers coming from other engineering disciplines with a significant opportunity to specialize in the management and optimization of engineering systems
  2. Introduce engineers to the state of the art tools and methods used in the design, management or improvement of integrated systems of people, materials, facilities, information, and technology; and
  3. Provide students with a unique non-traditional interdisciplinary education that is tailored to the student professional needs and interest

Student Outcomes

The students will acquire in their matriculation through the program, the following skills, knowledge, and behaviors:

a. Ability to use knowledge of math and science to model and improve complex integrated systems of people, materials, facilities or technology
b. Broad knowledge that encompasses the fields of production systems and manufacturing, construction engineering and management, finance and economics
c. ability to use data analysis and optimization for decision making
d. ability to provide support for systems engineering and project management
e. Ability to function as a professional in the discipline
f. Develop an ability to grow through life long acquisition of knowledge
g. Advanced proficiency in student-selected topics in optimization, production systems and manufacturing, infrastructure and construction management or finance and economics.

Curriculum

The M.S. degree requires 30 credit hours of graduate-level courses. Students must complete all the requirements for a Master’s Degree, including the accepted transferred credits, within six years, as of the end of the first semester.

The degree requirements are:

  • 30 credit hours of graduate level courses
  • At least 18 credit hours in engineering courses
  • No more than 6 credit hours in project-based courses or thesis work
  • At least 6 credit hours in Optimization
  • At least 9 credit hours from Production Systems and Manufacturing or Infrastructure and Construction Management
  • At least 3 credit hours from Finance and Economics

The remaining courses may be taken from any of the following concentrations areas:

  • CA_1 Optimization
  • CA_2 Production Systems and ­Manufacturing
  • CA_3 Infrastructure and Construction ­Management
  • CA_4 Finance and Economics
  • CA_5 Software

CA_1: Optimization

  • INE700 Advanced Statistics (3 cr.)
  • INE701 Linear Programming (3 cr.)
  • INE702 Integer Programming (3 cr.)
  • INE703 Dynamic Programming (3 cr.)
  • INE704 Stochastic Processes (3 cr.)
  • INE705 Non-linear Programming (3 cr.)
  • INE706 Decision Analysis (3 cr.)
  • INE707 Network Flow (3 cr.)
  • INE708 Queuing Theory and Applications (3 cr.)
  • INE709 Advanced Stochastic Processes (3 cr.)
  • INE711 Advanced Simulation (3 cr.)
  • INE810 Special Topics in Optimization (3 cr.)

CA_2: Production Systems and Manufacturing

  • INE742 Industrial quality Control (3 cr.)
  • INE743 Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems* (3 cr.)
  • INE744 Inventory Analysis (3 cr.)
  • INE745 Facilities Planning and Layout* (3 cr.)
  • INE746 Materials Handling* (3 cr.)
  • INE748 Machine Scheduling (3 cr.)
  • INE749 Transportation and Supply chain Systems* (3 cr.)
  • INE761 Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing* (3 cr.)
  • INE762 Analysis of Automated Manufacturing Systems* (3 cr.)
  • INE763 Advanced Information Technology for Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering* (3 cr.)
  • INE764 Times Series control & Process Adjustment* (3 cr.)
  • INE840 Special Topics in Production Systems & Manufacturing (3 cr.)

CA_3: Infrastructure and Construction Management

  • CIE761 Traffic Engineering (3 cr.)
  • CIE785 Risk and Natural Hazard Management (3 cr.)
  • CIE786 Highway Design and Management* (3 cr.)
  • CIE787 Concrete and Steel Construction* (3 cr.)
  • CIE788 GIS and Remote Sensing (3 cr.)
  • CIE790 Construction and Control* (3 cr.)
  • INE722/ CIE782 Infrastructure Management* (3 cr.)
  • INE724/ CIE784 Quality Management Systems (3 cr.)
  • INE727 Project Scheduling (3 cr.)
  • INE729 Project Contracting (3 cr.)
  • INE820 Special Topics in Infrastructure & Construction Management (3 cr.)

CA_4: Finance and Economics

  • ACC821 Financial Accounting (3 cr.)
  • ECO811 Business Economics (3 cr.)
  • FIN836 Modern Portfolio Management (3 cr.)
  • FIN837 International Business (3 cr.)
  • FIN861 Financial Management (3 cr.)
  • INA831 International Political Economy (3 cr.)
  • INE771 Financial Engineering* (3 cr.)
  • INE772 Advanced Financial Engineering* (3 cr.)
  • INE781 Engineering Economy II* (3 cr.)
  • INE870 Special Topics in Finance & Economics* (3 cr.)

CA_5: Software

Other Courses

* Courses Not Offered for the Past Two Years

For further academic details, please contact Dr. Michel Khoury, Chairperson. You may also contact the Industrial & Mechanical Engineering Department.