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Rensselaer Catalog 2012-2013 
    
Rensselaer Catalog 2012-2013 [Archived Catalog]

Industrial and Management Engineering


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This curriculum requires a minimum of 128 credit hours and completion of the course requirements shown in the typical four-year program presented below.

First Year


Fall


  • Hum. or Soc. Sci. Elective Credit Hours: 4

Spring


  • Computer Science Elective Credit Hours: 4
    (See footnote 2 below)

  • Hum. or Soc. Sci. Elective Credit Hours: 4

Second Year


Fall


  • Hum. or Soc. Sci. Elective Credit Hours: 4

Spring


  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3-4
    (See footnote 3 below)
  • Management Elective  Credit Hours: 4
    (See footnote 4 below)

Third Year


Fall


  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 3 below)
  • Hum. or Soc. Sci. Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • Professional Development II Credit Hours: 2
    (See footnote 5 below)

Spring


  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 3 below)
  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 3 below)
  • Hum. or Soc. Sci. Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • Free Elective Credit Hours: 4 

Fourth Year


Fall


  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 3 below) 
  • Free Elective Credit Hours: 4

 

Spring


  • Free Elective Credit Hours: 4 
  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 3 below)

Electives


The free electives indicated above may be chosen from any academic discipline to broaden the student’s educational background and/or develop greater depth in a selected discipline.

Humanities and Social Sciences Electives


The electives in this area are based on the Institute and School of Engineering requirements. Students are urged to elect humanities and social science sequences through which they will obtain adequate breadth and depth in subject areas. Students desiring minors in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences must consult the school or department in which the courses are offered to obtain further information and specific requirements.

Footnotes


  1. For these two courses, order does not matter. ENGR 1300 may be replaced with ISYE 1100 – Introduction to Industrial and Systems Engineering. ENGR 1200 may be replaced with ENGR 1400 - Engineering Communications.
  2. IME majors must take CSCI 1010 Introduction to Computer Programming or CSCI 1100 Computer Science I for the Computer Science Elective.
  3. IME majors must select six courses from the following list of technical electives. The selected courses must include a minimum of four ISYE numbered courses and at least two courses from among: ISYE 4200, ISYE 4230, ISYE 4240 and ISYE 4250:

    No more than 2 courses from:

    ENGR 1600 Materials Science for Engineers

    ENGR 2090 Engineering Dynamics

    ENGR 2250 Thermal and Fluids Engineering I

    ENGR 2350 Embedded Control

    ENGR 2530 Strength of Materials

    ENGR 2710 General Manufacturing Processes

    ENGR 4300 Electronic Instrumentation

    ENGR 4710 Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory I

    ENGR 4720 Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory II

    ISYE 4200 Design and Analysis of Work Systems

    ISYE 4230 Quality Control

    ISYE 4240 Engineering Project Management

    ISYE 4250 Facilities Design & Industrial Logistics

    ISYE 4280 Decision Focused Systems Engineering

    Other approved technical elective options:

    ISYE 4220 Optimization Algorithms and Applications

    ISYE 4260 Human Performance Modeling and Support

    ISYE 4760 Mathematical Statistics

    ISYE 4810 Computational Intelligence

    ISYE 4930 Complex Systems Modeling for Industrial and Systems Engineering

    ISYE 4931 Ethics of Modeling for Industrial and Systems Engineering

    Special undergraduate sections or regular graduate sections of 6000 level ISYE courses can also serve as technical electives except for ISYE 6600, ISYE 6610 and ISYE 6620.

  4.  

    IME majors may select any one of the following courses to satisfy the management elective requirement:

    ECON 2010 Managerial Economics

    ECON 4210 Cost Benefit Analysis

    MGMT 1100 Introduction to Management

    MGMT 2320 Accounting for Decision Making

    MGMT 4430 Marketing Principles

    MGMT 4510 Invention, Innovation, & Entrepreneur.

    MGMT 4520 Technological Entrepreneurship

    MGMT 4530 Starting Up a New Venture

    MGMT 4850 Managing the High Perf. Org I

    MGMT 4860 Managing the High Perf. Org II

  5. This course can be fulfilled by taking a two-credit course from a list of courses published at the start of each semester.

  6. May be taken in either fall or spring semester.
     

 

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