Master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering (Thesis)

(On-Campus only)

MS Industrial and Systems Engineering – 31 hours

There are four required courses:

• INSY 6600 (Prerequisite Information) – Engineering Economic Systems (Offered Spring and Summer semester)
• INSY 7300 – Advanced Engineering Statistics (Fall semester only)
• INSY 7420 – Linear Programming and Network Flows (Spring semester only)
• INSY 7950 – Seminar (1 Credit Hour) (Spring semester only)

There are two additional required INSY Elective courses. An INSY Elective is any 3-hour graduate course with INSY pre-fix.

There are six (6) additional hours of INSY Thesis (INSY 7990).  Students must identify a thesis advisor, one of our professors that is willing to supervise the research and evaluate the thesis.  The Graduate School has specific policies and dates regarding the master’s thesis.  Click here for more information.

Advance approval from the Graduate Program Advisor is required to enroll in the following courses:

• INSY 7940 ISE Problems
• INSY 7980 ISE Project

There are three additional required INSY or INSY-related Electives.  An INSY-related Elective may have an INSY prefix or other prefix, such as BUSI 7140.  Students can take all of their courses as INSY courses and are recommended to do so if they do not have an undergraduate degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering.  STAT 7000 may not be counted for this degree.

All graduate level courses are numbered 6000 and above, e.g. INSY 6600, INSY 7300, or INSY 8250.  There is no substantive difference in the level 6xxx and level 7xxx courses.  The courses numbered 8xxx are usually only taken by PhD students; individual instructors can make exceptions.  Distance courses are delineated by the section number beginning with the letter D, such as INSY 6600-D01. All graduate level courses are 3-semester hours unless otherwise specified.

*If unable to register for a course, please complete the INSY Course Request Form.

To see a listing of all INSY courses, click here.

All of our required courses are offered at least once per year; most elective courses are offered less frequently.  Generally around five elective courses or more are offered each semester, including Summer.

The courses in our program can be taken in any order and prerequisites are generally not enforced at the Graduate level.  Taking three courses (9 hours) is considered full-time for a Graduate student.  Students have 6 years to complete the degree.