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Rensselaer Catalog 2022-2023 
    
Rensselaer Catalog 2022-2023 [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


  • HASS Core Elective I Credit Hours: 4

Spring


  • HASS Core Elective II Credit Hours: 4

Second Year


Fall


  • HASS Core Elective III Credit Hours: 4

Third Year


The Arch Summer Semester*


*For students who have applied for and been granted an exception, The Arch Summer courses would be taken during the fall semester. For listing of the exception process go to: http://info.rpi.edu/arch/students/#ExceptionProcess.

  • HASS Core Elective IV Credits Hours: 4

Fall OR Spring


  • Technical Elective I  Credit Hours: 3
  • (See footnote 7 below)
  • Technical Elective II  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 7 below)
  • HASS Core Elective V Credit Hours: 4
  • Management Elective I Credit Hours: 4

​(See footnote 4 below)

Fourth Year


Fall


  • Technical Elective III  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 7 below) 
  • Free Elective I Credit Hours: 4
  • Science Elective Credit Hours: 4

Spring


  • Technical Elective IV Credit Hours:3
    (See footnote 7 below)
  • Free Elective II Credit Hours: 4
  • Free Elective III Credit Hours: 4

Free 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, Arts, 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, arts, 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. ENGR 1200  and ENGR 1300  may be taken in either order. 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. This course is only offered in the spring semester.
  3. IME majors must take 4-credit course hours in one or more of these areas ASTR, BCBP, BIOL, CHEM, ERTH, MATH, IENV, or PHYS to satisfy the science elective requirement.
  4. IME majors must select one of the following restricted electives to satisfy the Management Elective:
    ECON 1200  Introductory Economics
    IHSS 1200  Principles of Economics
    ISYE 4400  Management of Engineering and Technology
    MGMT 1100  Introduction to Management
    MGMT 2300  Financial Accounting
    MGMT 4510  Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship 
    MGMT 4520  Introduction to Technological Entrepreneurship
    ​​PSYC 1200  General Psychology
  5. For a list of courses that satisfy the Professional Development - Technical Issues & Solution requirement, refer to the link “Professional Development Courses” on the Registrar’s “Academic Planning” webpage. It should be completed before the capstone design course.
  6. This course is only offered in the fall semester.
  7. IME majors must complete 12 credits of technical electives from the following list.  A minimum of 6 credits must be in engineering (i.e., have an ISYE, ENGR, or other engineering discipline prefix).  Note that not all courses are offered every year

      CSCI 4250  Frontiers of Network Science 

ECON 4570  Econometrics

ECSE 1010  Intro to Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering

ENGR 1600  Materials Science for Engineers 

ENGR 2090  Engineering Dynamics

ENGR 2250  Thermal and Fluids Engineering I 

ENGR 2300  Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR 2350  Embedded Control 

ENGR 2530  Strength of Materials

ENGR 2710  General Manufacturing Processes 

ENGR 4710  Manufacturing Processes & Systems Laboratory I 

ENGR 4720  Manufacturing Processes & Systems Laboratory II 

ISYE 4200  Design and Analysis of Work Systems

ISYE 4220  Optimization Algorithms and Applications 

ISYE 4230  Quality Control

ISYE 4240  Engineering Project Management 

ISYE 4250  Facilities Design & Industrial Logistics 

ISYE 4260  Human Performance Modeling and Support 

ISYE 4280  Decision Focused Systems Engineering

ISYE 4300  Complex Systems Models for Industrial & Systems Engineering 

ISYE 4310  Ethics of Modeling for Indus. & Systems Eng 

ISYE 4320  Theory of Scheduling  

ISYE 4330  Design of Experiments

ISYE 4360  Applied Data Science  

ISYE 4340  Cyber-Physical Systems    
ISYE 4350  Systems Engineering and Social Media    

ISYE 4760  Mathematical Statistics  

ISYE 4810  Computational Intelligence 

MANE 4330  Inventor’s Studio 3

MANE 2710  Thermodynamics 

PSYC 4310  Research Methods And Statistics II 

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 .

  1. Students can elect to take MANE 2220  to satisfy this requirement.​
  2. Students can elect to take MANE 4220  to satisfy both ENGR 4010  and ISYE 4270 .
  3. ISYE 4290  is only offered in the Spring and ISYE 4210  is only offered in the Fall. Thus, depending on away semesters, when these two courses are taken can be swapped.

 

      

 

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