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Industrial Engineering: University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering

Undergraduate Concentration Areas

The undergraduate program provides a choice of four main areas of emphasis: Operations Research & Computer Modeling, Information Systems Engineering, Product Development & Manufacturing Systems, and Engineering Management. Technical elective courses may be taken in any of these four areas. Students wishing to gain a breadth of experience may choose to take a series of courses from two or more of the four areas. Those students wishing to earn a concentration in one of these four areas must take three out of four of their technical electives in one area.

Some of the courses that fall into each of the four areas are listed below. Students may petition the undergraduate committee to take a course outside of the IE Department that qualifies in one of the areas. For example courses in the Information Systems Department may qualify in the Information Systems Engineering area, courses in Mechanical Engineering may qualify in the Product Development & Manufacturing Systems area, and courses from the College of Business may qualify in the Engineering Management area. Permission will be granted on a case-by-case basis. In addition, top academic students may take a graduate level course within the IE Department with the approval of their advisor and the course instructor.

Operations Research & Computer Modeling
IE 1062 - Data Mining (IE 2062)
IE 1079 - Logistics and Supply Chain Engineering (IE 2079)
IE 1086 - Decision Models (IE 2086)
IE 1091 - Unstructured Problem Solving
IE 1101 - Facility Logistics (IE 2101
IE 2188 - Simulation Modeling and Applications

Information Systems Engineering
IE 1014 - Data Base Design (IE 2004)
IE 1015 - Geographic Information Systems (IE 2105)
IE 1062 - Data Mining (IE 2062)

Product Development & Manufacturing Systems
IE 1012 - Manufacture of Structural Nanomaterials (IE 2012)
IE 1013 - Manufacturing Process Engineering (IE 2014)
IE 1057 - Computer Aided Manufacturing (IE 2051)
IE 1087 - Finite Element Analysis in Product Design
IE 1101 - Facility Logistics (IE 2101)
IE 2188 - Simulation Modeling and Applications
ENGR 1050 - Product Realization
ENGR 1051 - Business Plan to Product Implementation

Engineering Management
IE 1032 - Cases in Engineering Management (IE 2032)
IE 1033 - Board Governance and Management (IE 2033)
IE 1039 - Entrepreneurship for Engineers (IE 2039)
IE 1076 - Total Quality Management (IE 2076)
IE 1086 - Decision Models (IE 2086)
IE 1091 - Unstructured Problem Solving
IE 2095 - Law and Engineering
IE 2097 - Financial Engineering
ENGR 1500 - Ethical Dilemmas in Balancing Cost, Risk and Schedule
ENGR 1051 - Business Plan to Product Implementation
(10/11/05)

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