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2014-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Industrial Engineering, BSIE


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About the Program

Industrial engineering entails the design, analysis, and management of complex human-integrated systems such as manufacturing systems, supply chain networks, and service systems. These systems typically consist of a combination of people, information, material, and equipment. In such systems industrial engineers determine how to optimize the system for maximum efficiency, effectiveness, throughput, safety, or some other objective of interest to the stakeholders of the system.
Senior design projects consist of a real-world application of IE principles by teaming students with an industry partner.  Teams have taken on full-scale projects like designing floor layouts for factories and hospitals, designing operations to improve system efficiency, reducing time and waste in processing, allocating resources to optimize system performance, and developing a safety plan for preventing work-related injuries.

Summary of Program Requirements

The Summary of Program Requirements for Industrial Engineering  is a comprehensive list of those categories which a student must fulfill in order to earn their degree. Unlike the full Detailed Program Requirements listed below, complete lists of selectives for any given category are not shown. These summaries are intended to be printer-friendly and less expansive in detail.

Detailed Program Requirements

Please see below for detailed program requirements and possible selective fulfillments.

 

code-BSc-IE
123 Credits for Graduation

Industrial Engineering Major Courses (36 credits)


IE Technical Electives - (15 credits)


NOTE: 6 credits required in IE courses, Must do two of the first three options listed below

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

Other Departmental/Program Course Requirements (55-57 credits)


Science Requirements (14 cr.)


General Education Elective Requirements (24 cr.)


Foundational Core

(http://www.purdue.edu/provost/initiatives/curriculum/course.html)

  • (satisfies Information Literacy selective for core; ENGL 10600 /ENGL 10800  strongly recommended) - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • (satisfies Written Communication selective for core; ENGL 10600 /ENGL 10800  strongly recommended) - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • (satisfies Oral Communication selective for core; COM 11400  strongly recommended) - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • (satisfies Human Cultures: Humanities selective for core) - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • (satisfies Human Cultures: Behavioral/Social Science selective for core) - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • (satisfies Science, Technology & Society selective for core) - Credit Hours: 3.00

University Core Requirements


  • Human Cultures Humanities
  • Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science
  • Information Literacy
  • Science #1 - PHYS 17200  
  • Science #2 - CHM 11500  
  • Science, Technology & Society
  • Written Communication
  • Oral Communication
  • Quantitative Reasoning - MA 16100 /MA 16500  

Program Requirements


14 Credits


16 Credits


16 Credits


15 Credits


18 Credits


15 Credits


Fall 4th Year


15 Credits


Spring 4th Year


  • Technical Elective III - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Technical Elective IV - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • Technical Elective V - Credit Hours: 3.00
  • General Elective VIII - Credit Hours: 3.00

15 Credits


Note


*Satisfies a University Core Requirement

**Satisfies a Non-departmental Major Course Requirement

123 semester credits required for Bachelor of Engineering degree.

2.0 Graduation GPA required for Bachelor of Engineering degree.

Degree Requirements


The student is ultimately responsible for knowing and completing all degree requirements.

Critical Course


The ♦ course is considered critical. A Critical Course is one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.

Foreign Language Courses


Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program.  For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor:

American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

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