Curriculum
The curriculum is designed to meet the educational requirements of the engineering profession. Flexibility is provided through electives so that the individual may emphasize areas of personal interest. For a description of all courses offered by the department, go to the link below entitled "Bulletin", and then to the section "Courses of Instruction" which are arranged alphabetically. Click the link for "Industrial & Sys Eng - INSY" where our courses are arranged numerically. Graduate level courses begin at number INSY 6XXX.
Our graduate program has two master's degree options, each requiring a minimum of 31 semester hours: Master of Industrial and Systems Engineering (MISE) and Master of Science (MS). All graduate level courses are numbered 6000 and above, e.g. INSY 6600 or INSY 7300 or INSY 8250. All graduate level courses are 3 semester hours unless otherwise specified.
MISE (course-only Master's degree)
Take these 4 required courses:
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INSY 6600/6606 - Manufacturing and Production Economics
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INSY 7300/7306 - Advanced Engineering Statistics
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INSY 7420/7426 - Linear Programming and Network Flows
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INSY 7950/7956 - Seminar (1 Credit Hour)
Take 4 INSY Electives (An INSY Elective is any 3-hour graduate course with INSY pre-fix; INSY 7980/7986 require approval of Graduate Coordinator or Advisor)
Take 3 INSY Related Electives (An INSY Related Elective may have an INSY prefix or other prefix; check with Graduate Coordinator or Advisor to confirm whether course will count before taking)
MS Degree (includes Thesis - not available for outreach students)
MS students must complete the same requirements as MISE students except that in general, MS students substitute 6 hours of thesis (INSY 7990) for 2 of the INSY electives or INSY Related elective courses. To complete the MS degree, you must have a thesis advisor; students must find their own advisor which must be one of our department's faculty members. At a minimum, students must complete a thesis equating to 4 hours of graduate course work using the course number INSY 7990; if the student only completes 4 hours of thesis, they must complete an additional INSY elective. Your thesis advisor may have other requirements and should be consulted by the student for course selection. The Graduate School's requirements for thesis must be met; consult the AU Bulletin for these requirements.
Course Schedules
Our three INSY graduate core courses are offered once per year (INSY 7300/6 every Fall semester, INSY 6600/6 and INSY 7420/6 every Spring semester).
Most INSY electives are offered once every other year. Course offerings for future semesters are determined a few months before the beginning of the next semester, usually in February for the following Summer and Fall semesters and in September for the following Spring semester. The course offerings for future semesters can be viewed on Tiger i (AU Access) when they are available. Current graduate students are usually able to register for future semesters soon after the schedules are available on Tiger i for viewing.
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