School of Industrial Engineering (Graduate)

Website URL:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/IE/Academics

Department/School Head:

Abhijit V. Deshmukh

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

Welcome to the School of Industrial Engineering Graduate Program. We offer graduate Master’s Program [Thesis (Research Track) or Non-Thesis (Application Track) options], and Ph.D. level programs for students You may specialize in the fields of:

Human Factors
Manufacturing
Operations Research
Production Systems

We also offer dual degrees, concentrations, and a graduate certificate:

MS(E) + MBA - a dual degree Master’s program with the Krannert School of Management
Plan of Study (POS)

Concentrations

CIGP-CSE - Computational Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs - Computational Science & Engineering
ESE - Ecological Sciences & Engineering

Graduate certificate

SYS - Purdue Systems Collaboratory - Systems Certificate

• ( MSIE/MSIE thesis ) and PhD

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

• Energy Systems
• Healthcare Engineering
• Aviation Human Factors
• Nano-Manufacturing
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Safety Engineering
• Intelligent Systems
• Financial Engineering
• Service Engineering
• Simulation Optimization
• Materials Processing
• Digital Human Modeling
• Machining Processes
• Global Systems
• Information Visualization
• Distributed Control
• Nonlinear Optimization
• Group Work and Communications
• E-work, E-business, E-service Systems

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Barrett Caldwell
Srinivasan Chandrasekar
Abjhijit Deshmukh
Paul Griffin
Mark Lehto
C. Richard Liu
Sara McComb
Thomas Morin
Shimon Nof
Nagabhushana Prabhu
Jose Tanchoco
Yuehwern Yih

Associate Professor

Gary Cheng
Bradley Duerstock
Vincent Duffy
Charles Robert Kenley
Steven Landry
Seokcheon Lee
Andrew Liu
Gesualdo Scutari
Juan Wachs
Hong Wan

Assistant Professor

Vaneet Aggarwal
Hua Cai
Joaquin Goñi 
Harsha Honnappa
Susan Hunter
David Johnson
Ramses Martinez
Roshanak Nateghi
Brandon Pitts
Christopher Quinn
Mario Ventresca
Wenzhou Wu
Denny Yu 

Professor by Courtesy  

Melba Crawford
Robert Proctor
J. Shanthikumar

Emeritus Faculty

Arden Bement
Ferdinand Leimkuhler
Colin Moodie
Ronald Rardin
Gavriel Salvendy
Bruce Schmeiser
James Solberg
Frederick Sparrow
Arnold Sweet

Programs

• Industrial Engineering, PHD

• Industrial Engineering, MSIE

Courses

• IE 52500 - Healthcare Delivery Systems
• IE 53000 - Quality Control
• IE 53200 - Reliability
• IE 53300 - Industrial Applications Of Statistics
• IE 53500 - Linear Programming
• IE 53600 - Stochastic Models In Operations Research I
• IE 53700 - Discrete Optimization Models And Algorithms
• IE 53800 - Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms And Models
• IE 54100 - Nature-Inspired Computation
• IE 54500 - Engineering Economic Analysis
• IE 54600 - Economic Decisions In Engineering
• IE 55600 - Job Design
• IE 55800 - Safety Engineering
• IE 55900 - Cognitive Engineering Of Interactive Software
• IE 56100 - Introduction To Convex Optimization
• IE 56600 - Production Management Control
• IE 57000 - Manufacturing Process Engineering
• IE 57400 - Industrial Robotics And Flexible Assembly
• IE 57700 - Human Factors In Engineering
• IE 57900 - Design And Control Of Production And Manufacturing Systems
• IE 58000 - Systems Simulation
• IE 58100 - Simulation Design And Analysis
• IE 58200 - Advanced Facilities Design
• IE 58300 - Design And Evaluation Of Material Handling Systems
• IE 58800 - e-Work And e-Service
• IE 59000 - Topics In Industrial Engineering
• IE 63000 - Multiple Objective Optimization
• IE 63200 - Scheduling Models
• IE 63300 - Dynamic Programming
• IE 63400 - Integer Programming
• IE 63500 - Theoretical Foundations Of Optimization
• IE 63900 - Combinatorial Optimization
• IE 64600 - Advanced Decision Theory
• IE 65600 - Research Seminar In Human Factors
• IE 65900 - Human Aspects In Computing
• IE 67000 - Advanced Topics In Manufacturing Engineering
• IE 67400 - Computer And Communication Methods For Production Control
• IE 68000 - Advanced Simulation Design And Analysis
• IE 69000 - Advanced Topics In Industrial Engineering
• IE 69600 - Graduate Professional Practice
• IE 69700 - Seminar
• IE 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• IE 69900 - Research PhD Thesis