- The department offers advanced degrees in areas of study pertinent to the design, evaluation, and operation of a variety of industrial systems, ranging from the analysis of public systems to the service industry to the operation of manufacturing concerns.
- The course topics and research opportunities include engineering analytics, production planning, production control, facilities design, applied engineering statistics, quality control, and reliability, operations research, engineering economic analysis, human factors engineering, productivity analysis, manufacturing systems, robotics, automation, and computer applications.