Overview

The M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management provides 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 who can manage and improve integrated systems of people, materials, information, facilities, and technology.

This is a hybrid program that combines specialized knowledge bases (concentration areas) leading to a non-traditional interdisciplinary education. The concentration areas consist in part of elective graduate-level courses from the university’s industrial, mechanical, and civil engineering programs, and graduate courses from computer science, economics, business, and international affairs programs.

Mission

The mission of the M.S. in Industrial Engineering & 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.

Program Educational Objectives

The M.S. in Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management aims 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 state-of-the-art tools and methods used in the design, management and 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 students’ professional needs and interests.

Student Outcomes

Students will be able to:

1. use knowledge of math and science to model and improve complex integrated systems of people, materials, facilities and technology,
2. gain broad knowledge that encompasses the fields of finance and economics, production systems and manufacturing and construction engineering and management,
3. use data analysis and optimization for decision making,
4. provide support for systems engineering and project management,
5. function as a professional in the discipline,
6. develop an ability to grow through lifelong acquisition of knowledge, and
7. advanced proficiency, including student-selected topics in optimization, production systems and manufacturing, infrastructure and construction management, and finance and economics.

Curriculum

The M.S. in Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management requires 30 credits of graduate-level courses. As for all master’s degrees offered at LAU, 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 credits are distributed as follows:

• Engineering courses (at least 18 credits)
• Project-based courses or Thesis work (no more than 6 credits)
• Optimization courses (at least 6 credits)
• Production Systems & Manufacturing courses or Infrastructure & Construction Management courses (at least 9 credits)
• Finance & Economics courses (at least 3 credits)

The remaining 9 credits may be taken from any of the following concentration areas:

• Optimization
• Production Systems & ­Manufacturing
• Infrastructure & Construction ­Management
• Finance & Economics
• Software

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 & Applications (3 cr.)
• INE709 Advanced Stochastic Processes (3 cr.)
• INE711 Advanced Simulation (3 cr.)
• INE810 Special Topics in Optimization (3 cr.)

Production Systems & Manufacturing

• INE742 Industrial Quality Control (3 cr.)
• INE743 Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems* (3 cr.)
• INE744 Inventory Analysis (3 cr.)
• INE745 Facilities Planning & Layout* (3 cr.)
• INE746 Materials Handling* (3 cr.)
• INE748 Machine Scheduling (3 cr.)
• INE749 Transportation & 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.)

Infrastructure & Construction Management

• CIE761 Traffic Engineering (3 cr.)
• CIE766 Highway Design & Management* (3 cr.)
• CIE785 Risk & Natural Hazard Management (3 cr.)
• CIE788 GIS & Remote Sensing (3 cr.)
• CIE790 Construction & 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.)

Finance & 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.)

Software

• CSC450 Computer Graphics (3 cr.)
• CSC614 Heuristic Optimization (3 cr.)
• CSC623 Knowledge-Based Systems (3 cr.)
• CSC624 Data Mining (3cr.)
• CSC647 Parallel Algorithms and Programming (3cr.)
• COE741/ CSC460 Artificial Intelligence (3 cr.)
• COE752/ CSC611 Design and Analysis of Algorithms (3 cr.)

Other Courses

• INE800 Project Course (3 cr.)
• INE801 Special Topics Courses (3 cr.)
• INE899 Thesis* (6 cr.)

* Courses not offered for the past two years

For further academic details, please contact Dr. Charbel Mansour, Chair. You may also contact the Industrial & Mechanical Engineering Department.