Objectives & Outcomes

Program Educational Objectives

Within the first several years following graduation, our graduates are expected to have:

  • Been employed in industrial, service or governmental organizations applying the industrial engineering skills in developing, designing, analyzing, implementing or improving integrated systems that include people, materials, information, equipment and energy;
  • Completed or enrolled in a graduate program;
  • Participated in a multicultural and diverse workplace; and
  • Utilized teamwork, communication and engineering management skills

Student Outcomes

  1. Ability to apply knowledge of:
    • mathematics and computing;
    • science and engineering.
  2. Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.
  3. Ability to design or redesign integrated systems, components, or processes to meet desired needs within realistic constraints, such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.
    Note: We define "systems" to include people, materials, information, equipment and energy.
  4. Ability to function effectively on multidisciplinary teams.
  5. An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
  6. Ability to communicate effectively.
  7. Broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.
  8. Recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning.
  9. Knowledge of contemporary issues.
  10. Ability to use modern industrial engineering techniques, skills and tools necessary to design, develop, implement, and improve integrated systems that include people, materials, information, equipment and energy.
  11. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.