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Rensselaer Catalog 2010-2011 
    
Rensselaer Catalog 2010-2011 [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. The Industrial and Management Engineering Program at Rensselaer is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012 - telephone: (410) 347-7700.

First Year


Fall


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

Spring


  • Science Elective Credit Hours: 4
    (See footnote 1 below)
  • Hum. or Soc. Sci. Elective Credit Hours: 4

Second Year


Fall


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

Spring


  • Multidisciplinary Engineering Elective  Credit Hours: 3-4
    (See footnote 2 below)
  • Management Elective  Credit Hours: 4
    (See footnote 3 below)

Third Year


Fall


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

Spring


  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 5 below)
  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 5 below)
  • Hum. or Soc. Sci. Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • Free Elective Credit Hours: 4 

Fourth Year


Fall


  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 5 below) 
  • Free Elective Credit Hours: 4

 

Spring


  • Free Elective Credit Hours: 4 
  • Technical Elective  Credit Hours: 3
    (See footnote 5 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. A four-credit course in the School of Science.
  2. Students must select any two of the following approved multidisciplinary electives:
    * ENGR 1600 - Materials Science for Engineers Credit Hours: 4
    * ENGR 2090 - Engineering Dynamics Credit Hours: 4
    * ENGR 2250 - Thermal and Fluids Engineering I Credit Hours: 4
    * ENGR 2350 - Embedded Control Credit Hours: 4
    * ENGR 2530 - Strength of Materials Credit Hours: 4
    * ENGR 2710 - General Manufacturing Processes Credit Hours: 3
    * ENGR 4300 - Electronic Instrumentation Credit Hours: 4
    * ENGR 4710 - Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory I Credit Hours: 3
    * ENGR 4720 - Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory II Credit Hours: 3
    * MANE 4050 - Modeling and Control of Dynamic Systems Credit Hours: 4
  3. Students may select any one of the following courses to satisfy the management elective requirement:
    * ECON 2010 - Managerial Economics Credit Hours: 4
    * ECON 4210 - Cost-Benefit Analysis Credit Hours: 4
    * MGMT 1100 - Introduction to Management Credit Hours: 4
    * MGMT 2320 - Managerial Finance Credit Hours: 4
    * MGMT 4430 - Marketing Principles Credit Hours: 4
    * MGMT 4510 - Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Credit Hours: 4
    * MGMT 4520 - Introduction to Technological Entrepreneurship Credit Hours: 4
    * MGMT 4530 - Starting Up a New Venture Credit Hours: 4
    * MGMT 4850 - Organizational Behavior in High Performance Organizations Credit Hours: 4
    * MGMT 4860 - Human Resources in High Performance Organizations Credit Hours: 4
  4. This course can be fulfilled by taking a two-credit course from a list of courses published at the start of each semester.
  5. Students may select any four of the following courses to satisfy technical elective requirements:
    * ISYE 4200 - Design and Analysis of Work Systems Credit Hours: 3
    * ISYE 4220 - Optimization Algorithms and Applications Credit Hours: 3
    * ISYE 4230 - Quality Control Credit Hours: 3
    * ISYE 4240 - Engineering Project Management Credit Hours: 3
    * ISYE 4250 - Facilities Design and Industrial Logistics Credit Hours: 3
    * ISYE 4260 - Industrial Safety and Hygiene Credit Hours: 3
    * ISYE 4280 - Decision Focused Systems Engineering Credit Hours: 3
    * ISYE 4810 - Computational Intelligence Credit Hours: 3
    * ISYE 4960 - Topics in DSES Credit Hours: 3
    * ISYE 4962 - Complex Systems Modeling for Industrial Systems Engineering Credit Hours: 3

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

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