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Program Goals

The goal of the industrial engineering program is to produce baccalaureate engineers:

• with a strong theoretical base, tempered by analytical, design, laboratory and project experience, emphasizing applications
• with sufficient general educational breadth to view engineering and engineering management as professions having significant social and ethical responsibilities, and who understand the global implications of their professional practice
• who fully understand, and are committed to, lifelong learning and personal / professional growth and development

Another goal is to provide an intimate, interactive learning environment with personal involvement of a faculty with significant industrial and business experience.

MSOE's industrial engineering program also actively collaborates with business and industry on initiatives of mutual benefit to students, faculty and business/industry clients.

Educational Objectives

The graduating industrial engineer will:

• have a knowledge of and an ability to apply calculus, linear algebra, and, in particular, statistical methods to the solution of engineering and business problems
• have an understanding of the applications and principles of chemistry and calculus-based physics to the analysis and design of systems
• have the ability to characterize systems, including the ability to systematically acquire, analyze, and interpret data
• have the ability to recognize, formulate, and model processes with the primary intent of recommending and implementing process improvement
• have the ability to design interdisciplinary business / industry systems, effectively integrating people, machines, equipment, information and energy operating under realistic solution constraints such as cost, safety, reliability, manufacturability, ergonomics, environmental factors, etc.
• be able to effectively serve on interdisciplinary design teams and, in many cases, be capable of leading / facilitating these teams
• understand that engineering is a profession imposing significant social and ethical responsibilities with global implications that must be effectively addressed
• have the ability to evaluate, select and use the modern computer and information technology tools and techniques required for professional industrial engineering practice
• have exemplary ability to effectively communicate, in both written and verbal forms, with a variety of diverse audiences.
• have an understanding of the critical value of life-long learning and personal / professional growth and development