Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering

This doctoral degree is a research-oriented degree for students interested in a career in the academic community, in a consulting field, or in an industrial or service organization interested in advanced training.

The research interests of the industrial and systems engineering faculty are grouped in four broad areas: advanced manufacturing (MFG), health and human systems engineering (HHSE), operations research (OR), and data science (DS). Please reference the Program Requirements tab for program specific information on credit and course requirements.

Advanced Course Requirement

At least three (3) depth courses on a PhD degree plan should be from a set of advanced graduate courses. A PhD student needs to earn a letter grade of B or better on these courses. Each of the four research areas shall have a list of graduate courses that the area faculty deems as the advanced course set, furthering a student’s knowledge into sufficient depth of that area. Area faculty should have their advanced course set on file with the ISEN director of graduate programs, so that the ISEN Graduate Program Office can determine that this requirement is satisfied before a PhD degree plan is approved by the department. The advanced course set can be amended by its creating area faculty at any time.

For more detailed information regarding the PhD program, please refer to the PhD in Industrial Engineering webpage and the ISEN Graduate Handbook.

Steps to Fulfill a Doctoral Program