Program Educational Objectives

To graduate students who will:

  1. Have the technical expertise necessary for the broad practice of Industrial and Systems Engineering. This includes analytical, computational and experimental expertise and the ability to integrate and synthesize their expertise to solve complex problems.
  2. View technical problems from a systems perspective with attention to human, business, equipment, materials, energy and information aspects and with appreciation of global and societal contexts.
  3. Be able to effectively communicate technical ideas through oral and written media and to function effectively as members and/or leaders of diverse teams.
  4. Appreciate the changing world and its effect on the practice of engineering with concern for ethics, currency of expertise and contemporary issues.