• Industrial Engineering is at the heart of the systems that are essential to society.
  • From airlines to online retailers, from hospitals to manufacturers, from telecommunication companies to world-wide shipping companies, industrial engineers design solutions to improve the performance of complex systems of people, technology, and information.
  • Students entering this program come from a variety of backgrounds, including Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, and others.
  • Each student is provided with a personal work area in one of the graduate student offices.
  • The Master of Applied Science (MASc) requires four courses, one graduate seminar, and a research thesis.
  • The thesis must include an original contribution to the discipline and should include material of publishable quality.
  • The typical length of time to complete the MASc is two years. 
  • Areas of research include operations research, ergonomics, service systems, risk management and a variety of other fields related to the professor's specialties.