Industrial Engineering Technical Selectives (15 credits)
Required IE Technical Selectives Requirement - Credit Hours: 6.00
AND
Technical Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Technical Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
Technical Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
1.) Technical Selective Program for Industrial Engineering students
While this is not a strictly structured program like the General Education program, students are encouraged to treat the selection of technical selective courses in much the same way. Students are encouraged to select technical selective courses based on career objectives.
In general, a technical selective is a course that develops new professional skills and/or builds upon previously obtained skills. Courses must focus on the development of skills in engineering, mathematics, business, or selected natural or social sciences.
2.) Technical Selective Requirements
The following requirements are specified for the technical selective program. These are the most basic requirements. Additional policies and procedures are discussed below and in Section 3.
Each IE student is required to take 15 credit hours of technical selectives to complete the BSIE degree requirements. Technical selective courses are chosen from a list of courses approved by the Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Committee; and must include at least 6 credit hours from courses offered within the School of Industrial Engineering (policy outlined in Section 2.1).
Every course taken as a technical selective must be taken for a letter grade. (Courses transferred to Purdue that either correspond to pre-approved technical selectives or receive special approval (e.g., study abroad credits) as technical selectives must be taken in such a manner as to qualify for Purdue credit even though no grade will appear on the Purdue transcript.)
2.1. Required IE Technical Requirement
Of the 15 credit hours of technical selectives required, at least 6 credit hours must be taken from courses offered by the School of Industrial Engineering (i.e., must have the course identifier “IE”). There are two available options for IE students to accomplish this requirement.
- Option 1. IE 47000 and IE 48400
- Option 2. IE 47000 or IE 48400; and IE Selective - approved course offered within the School of Industrial Engineering (either at senior-undergraduate or 50000-level)
2.2. Other Technical Selective Courses
The nine (9.00) remaining credits of technical selective coursework must come from the approved list.
Undergraduate research experiences can be used if approved by the IE department and at least three (3.00) credit hours.
2.3. EPICS
Many students choose to participate in Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) during their time at Purdue. These projects include designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local as well as global community service and education organizations.
Up to a maximum of three (3.00) credits of EPICS (EPCS) coursework can be used toward the nine (9.00) credit hours of technical elective courses that do not need to originate from within IE. If EPCS credits are used to satisfy another area of the BSIE requirements (core or General Education), those credits cannot count towards technical elective requirements (e.g., EPCS 11100/12100 cannot be used for TE requirements because they satisfy core requirements).
