Ph.D. Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems

Approved Industrial and Information Systems Engineering Courses for the Doctoral Program:

• ISYE 4210 - Design and Analysis of Supply Chains Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4220 - Optimization Algorithms and Applications Credit Hours: 3 credit hours
• ISYE 4230 - Quality Control Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4250 - Facilities Design and Industrial Logistics Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4290 - Discrete Event Simulation Modeling and Analysis Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4760 - Mathematical Statistics Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 4810 - Computational Intelligence Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4960 - Topics in DSES Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4962 - Complex Systems Modeling for Industrial and Systems Engineering Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4964 - Ethics of Modeling for Industrial and Systems Engineering Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6010 - Applied Regression Analysis Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6020 - Design of Experiments Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6100 - Time Series Analysis Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6140 - Exploratory Data Analysis Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6180 - Knowledge Discovery with Data Mining Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6210 - Theory of Production Scheduling Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6500 - Information and Decision Technologies for Industrial and Service Systems Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6520 - Enterprise Database Systems Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6530 - Decision Support and Expert Systems Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6760 - Combinatorial Optimization and Integer Programming Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 6770 - Linear Programming Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 6780 - Nonlinear Programming Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 6820 - Queuing Systems and Applications Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6870 - Introduction to Neural Networks Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6960 - Topics in DSES Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6960 - Stochastic Models of Supply Chains  Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6965 - Agent Based Simulation Methods  Credit Hours: 3

Additional Information

First year doctoral students must also take the three-credit course, ISYE-6900 Seminar in Industrial and Systems Engineering Research, through which they are introduced to the research environment, identify the prospective research adviser and prepare a proposal for dissertation research. These proposals are reviewed by the faculty as part of the doctoral qualifying requirements. Additional doctoral program requirements include:

Doctoral candidacy examination: Each student must take an oral candidacy examination after meeting doctoral qualifying requirements but before completing 45 credit hours of graduate work beyond the master’s degree. This examination tests the candidate’s background for the proposed research, appropriateness of the thesis research, and the ability of the candi­date to successfully complete the research. The thesis research proposal must contain at least one result that meets journal publishing standards.

Doctoral dissertation and defense: Each student must write a doctoral thesis and give a formal oral public defense.

Apart from the seminar in ISYE research and the first year course requirements, there are no additional course requirements for the doctoral degree. However, the student is expected to develop in-depth knowledge in his/her dissertation area through appropriate course work, as well as supervised research. A Plan of Study is required, which must be approved by the thesis adviser and the ISYE doctoral program director.