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Jul 03, 2025
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Rensselaer Catalog 2025-2026
Industrial and Management Engineering M.S./M.Eng.
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The Industrial and Systems Engineering department offers the
Master of Science and the Master of Engineering degrees in
Industrial and Management Engineering. Both degrees require 30 credit hours. The Master of Science degree requires a thesis. The Master of Engineering degree is a non-thesis option. To complete the Master’s degree requirements, most students will complete a minimum of 21 credits from the currently offered courses with an ISYE prefix at the 4000 and 6000 levels approved by the Master’s Graduate Program Director (GPD). These restricted electives are selected from an evolving list of approved ISYE courses. Students should consult with the Master’s GPD with questions on whether a course can be applied to the Master’s degree. An adviser-approved, application-focused track area (e.g., manufacturing, logistics, optimization, complex systems
modeling, etc.) of two or more courses and/or a project is required.
The courses selected may include the two required prerequisite courses listed below. Students who have completed co-listed undergraduate (4000-level) ISYE courses during their Bachelor’s degree cannot apply the co-listed graduate (6000- level or higher) courses to their Master’s degree. Students who are registering for a co-listed course to be applied to their graduate program must register for the higher-level section. At least half of the credit hours in the graduate plan of study must be at the 6000 level or higher.
Outcomes of the Graduate Curriculum
Students who successfully complete the M.Eng. in Industrial and Management Engineering will be able to demonstrate:
• competency in the core program within industrial,systems, and management engineering.
• effective oral and written communication skills.
• preparedness for professional careers and/or further graduate studies.
In addition to the above three outcomes, students who successfully complete the M.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering will be able to demonstrate:
• proficiency in research techniques (theoretical,
computational, and experimental).
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Program Requirements
The following courses or their equivalents are requirements for the IME Master’s programs: ISYE 4140
ISYE 6610 If the student did not take one or both of the prerequisite courses or their equivalents and did not apply them to another degree before, these courses may be included in the Graduate Plan of Study as part of the minimum of 21 credit hours of courses with an ISYE prefix. If the student took one or both of the required courses or their equivalents and applied them to another degree before, they cannot be applied to the IME Master’s degree. In this case, the student will be required to complete one ISYE course at the 4000 level or above to replace ISYE 4140 and/or one ISYE course at the 6000 level or above to replace ISYE 6610, as part of the minimum of 21 credit hours of courses with an ISYE prefix.
Students in the M.Eng. in IME program will complete:
• a minimum of 21 credit hours of GPD-approved courses with an ISYE prefix,
• two or more courses and/or a master’s project from the School of Engineering in the adviser-approved, application-focused track area, such that the total is 6-9 credit hours. If any additional credits are needed to complete 30 credits, they may be advisor-approved free electives, from any department in the Institute.
Students in the M.S. in IME program will complete:
• a minimum of 18 credit hours of GPD-approved courses with an ISYE prefix,
• two or more courses from the School of Engineering in the adviser approved, application-focused track area,
• a master’s thesis of 6 credit hours. | IME M.S. (at least 30 credit hours) | IME M.Eng (at least 30 credit hours) | | at least 18 credit hours of ISYE prefix courses | at least 21 credit hours of ISYE prefix courses | At least 2 SoE courses (6 credit hours) for application-focused track
area | | 6 credit hours of Master’s Thesis | 3 credit hours of Master’s Project
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