University Catalog 2026-2027

Industrial Engineering (PhD)

Degree Requirements

Required Course3
Students must take either three credit hours of ISE 801 or two credit hours of ISE 801 and one credit hour of ISE 601
Seminar
Seminar
Seminar
Core Courses12 - 18
Select Core courses from the list below. Core Courses should include a minimum of two 700-level ISE courses approved in conjunction with the academic committee
External Courses12
Students must select 12 graduate credit hours of coursework that does not have an ISE prefix approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Elective / Research Courses39 - 45
"Elective / Research Courses" are approved in conjunction with the academic committee
Total Hours72

Core Courses

Select a minimum of one course from each category:
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Human Factors In Systems Design
Occupational Safety Engineering
Occupational Biomechanics
Systems Safety Engineering
Human Information Processing
Human Performance Modeling
Advanced Problems in Ergonomics
Manufacturing Systems
Manufacturing Process Engineering
Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing
Introduction to Product Development
Automated Systems Engineering
Micro/Nano-Scale Fabrication and Manufacturing
Supply Chain and Logistics
Modeling and Analysis of Supply Chains
Production Planning, Scheduling and Inventory Control
Theory of Activity Networks
Quality Engineering
Logistics Engineering
The Design of Production Systems
Systems Analytics and Optimization
Introduction to Operations Research
Linear Programming
Statistical Models for Systems Analytics in Industrial Engineering
Stochastic Models in Industrial Engineering
Simulation Modeling
Dynamic Programming
Applied Stochastic Models in Industrial Engineering
Queues and Stochastic Service Systems
Stochastic Simulation
Network Flows
Simulation Optimization

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Jingyan Dong
  • Shu-Cherng Fang, Walter Clark Professor
  • Yahya Fathi
  • Ola Lars Anders Harrysson, Edward P. Fitts Distinguished Professor
  • Russell E. King, Dopaco Distinguished Professor
  • Yuan-Shin Lee
  • Maria Esther Mayorga
  • Osman Yali Ozaltin
  • Rohan Ajit Shirwaiker
  • Julie Swann, A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor
  • Reha Uzsoy, Clifton A. Anderson Distinguished Professor
  • Xu Xu

Associate Professors

  • Karen Boru Chen
  • Leila Hajibabai Dizaji
  • Adolfo Escobedo
  • Xiaolei Fang
  • Michael G. Kay
  • Jordan Kern
  • Sara Shashaani
  • Hong Wan

Assistant Professors

  • Seyedmohammadhossein Hosseinian
  • Gal Mendelson
  • Jacob Peloquin
  • Benjamin A. Rachunok
  • Renran Tian

Practice/Research/Teaching Professors

  • Ed Addison
  • Corey Kiassat
  • Semra Sebnem Ahiska King
  • Fred Livingston
  • Brandon Mark McConnell
  • Nur Ozaltin
  • Kanton Tyrone Reynolds
  • Harvey A. West II

Adjunct Associate Professor

  • Yunan Liu

Emeritus Faculty

  • Paul Cohen
  • Julie Simmons Ivy
  • Charles Thomas Culbreth Jr.
  • Thom Joel Hodgson
  • Henry Nuttle
  • Stephen Dean Roberts
  • Ezat Sanii
  • Clarence Smith Jr.
  • James Reed Wilson
  • Richard Wysk
  • Robert E. Young