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The Major: Industrial and systems engineers specialize in coordination, planning and control. Industrial growth has created unusual opportunities for the industrial and systems engineer. Due to increased emphasis on automation and productivity, coupled with higher levels of systems sophistication, there is great demand for engineering graduates with broad interdisciplinary backgrounds.

Industrial and systems engineering prepares students for industrial practice in product design, process design, plant operation, production control, quality control, facilities planning, work system analysis and evaluation, and economic analysis of operational systems.

Students are prepared to use engineering principles to solve problems that require a quantitative basis for decision making and the application of economics, operations research, statistics, mathematics and engineering analysis, with dependence on the computer. The curriculum also provides the preparation necessary for graduate study.

Many graduate engineers embark on graduate studies in business administration. The combination of a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business has proven valuable for managerial and executive positions. The College of Engineering, the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Warrington College of Business Administration offer two opportunities for combined degrees. Both offer the Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering and a master’s degree in business.

Applicants with substantial work experience may qualify for the combined Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, which earns a Master of Science in Management.

An applicant for one of the combined curricula must first be admitted to the department for the BSISE degree. After about 80 hours toward the BSISE and with the endorsement of the department, the student applies to the Warrington College of Business Administration. Graduate admission is based on the student’s academic record and performance on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), which is required for admission to the MBA program. International students must meet university requirements for the TOEFL.

Application for the fall term must be completed before April.

Admitted students can begin one of the business programs in the Summer B term; EIN 3314 and ESI 4312, 4313 and 4523 must be completed before this time. To qualify for the MBA program, students also are expected to have full-time work experience or to gain substantial work experience through internships or co-ops.

The combined BSISE/MBA program should take six years; the combined BSISE/MSM program can be completed in slightly more than five years.

The mission of the undergraduate program is to provide a top quality, state-of-the-art education in industrial and systems engineering and to foster leading-edge instruction. The program seeks national recognition by peer institutions and key employers of industrial and systems engineering graduates.

• To prepare students for successful professional careers in industrial and systems engineering and for the pursuit of further education,
• To teach students to take a comprehensive view of complex industrial and service systems, and
• To provide the necessary skills in system modeling, optimization, analytical problem solving, process improvement, economic analysis and information technology.

The minimum requirements for admission into the undergraduate program are an overall grade point average of 2.0 and a 2.5 grade point average in the designated pre-engineering technical courses. Students who have not met these requirements at 60 hours may be admitted on probation with successful petition.

Normally, technical elective credit is restricted to approved upper-division courses in engineering, computer science, mathematics, statistics and business. Students can receive up to three credits for approved co-op and internship experience as part of the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) sequence, for certain courses taken as part of advanced ROTC and for other approved courses.

A grade of C or better must be earned in the human systems requirement, each required statistics course and each required course in the industrial and systems engineering department. Students earning less than a C must repeat the course as soon as possible. Statistics or department courses taken as electives do not fall under this rule.

The registrar precludes registration in ISE upper-division courses for students who have not satisfied the prerequisites. It is the student’s responsibility to complete all prerequisites. Students also are expected to take courses in a timely manner, as recommended in the 10-semester course plan below; failure to do so can result in remedial action.

To remain ‘on track’ for this major a student must meet the following critical-tracking criteria. Critical-tracking courses appear in bold.

• 2.0 UF GPA required semesters 1-5
• 2.5 GPA on all critical-tracking course work for semesters 1-5
• Complete 1 of 7 tracking courses with a minimum grade of C within 2 attempts (CGS 2425, MAC 2311, MAC 2312, MAC 2313, MAP 2302, PHY 2048, PHY 2049)

• Complete 1 additional course with a minimum grade of C within 2 attempts

• Complete 2 additional courses with a minimum grade of C within 2 attempts

• Complete 3 additional courses with a minimum grade of C in each course within 2 attempts

1 Acceptable courses in microeconomics: ECO 2013 and 2023 OR the single course ECO 3101. These courses satisfy social and behavioral sciences General Education requirements. Students should complete EIN 4354 and ESI 4312 before taking ECO 3101. Admission to ECO 3101 may require instructor approval. If ECO 3101 is taken, one credit accrues to technical elective.

2 Students with deficient backgrounds in physics should first take a lower-level course such as PHY 2020. After successful remediation, they can begin the physics sequence: PHY 2048, 2048L, 2049 and 2049L.

3 EIN 4321, Industrial Energy Management, can be substituted for EML 3007, Thermodynamics.

4 The curriculum requires 13 technical elective credits. Students should select technical electives that are related to one another and provide expertise in an ISE concentration area. Several minors provide such concentrations; information is available from Academic Services Weil Hall, Room 317.

5 Students are encouraged to participate in the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program, which requires six hours of course work and is offered as a sequence of two 3-credit courses during fall and spring of the senior year. Multidisciplinary teams of engineering students work closely with an industry liaison engineer to design a new product or process for an industry sponsor. The first of these courses is an approved substitute for three credits of technical electives; the second course is an approved substitute for the capstone design course (senior project) EIN 4335.

6 In the spring semester, EIN 4335 will be offered as Emulated Product and Process Design, a course in which multidisciplinary teams design a new product and associated processes using concurrent engineering tools.

Approximately ten percent of the members of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (pursue a Professional Engineer (PE) license. A PE license is especially desirable for engineers who want to start their own business. The industrial and systems engineering curriculum does not require certain courses that are necessary for the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam, which is also known as the Engineer Intern exam, and is a prerequisite for pursuing Professional Engineer certification.

Students preparing for the FE exam should select a set of technical electives that properly prepare them for this exam, such as EGM 3520, Mechanics of Materials, and EGM 3400, Engineering Mechanics – Dynamics. Students should not substitute EIN 4321 Industrial Energy Management for EML 3007 Thermodynamics.

Students should also take one of the following ethics courses: EGN 4032, Professional Issues in Engineering, or EGN 4034, Professional Ethics.