Our goal is to provide high quality education to our students and to conduct research, often in collaboration with industry and other disciplines, to advance the state of knowledge and practice in the field of industrial engineering. The program aims to ensure that each student is firmly rooted in scientific principles and at the same time knowledgeable and confident to implement these principles to solve relevant engineering problems in industry and the public sector.

With a focus on key areas of critical importance to national competitiveness and productivity, our faculty members have achieved international recognition for their contributions to these areas. Both the curriculum and laboratories are designed to support these research focus areas.

Theory and Methodology

Reliability and Quality Control

Faculty Expertise: Elsayed, Coit, Jeong, Pham, Aziz Ezzat

Operations Research

Faculty Expertise: Coit, Jeong, Gursoy

Stochastic Modeling

Faculty Expertise: Gursoy, Jafari, Pham

Data Analytics and Data Mining

Faculty Expertise: Jeong, Pham, Jafari, Aziz Ezzat

Production and Manufacturing

Faculty Expertise: Elsayed, Gursoy, Ozel

Control and Automation

Faculty Expertise: Ozel, Jafari

Simulation

Faculty Expertise: Elsayed, Jafari

Physics-based Simulation Modeling

Faculty Expertise: Ozel

Application Areas

Supply Chain and Logistics

Information Technology
Inventory Control and Demand Management
Procurement Strategies

Faculty Expertise: Gursoy

Energy

Power Grid expansion
System Reliability and Maintenance
Smart Grid
Distributed Energy Resources, Renewables and Energy Storage
Energy Smart Buildings and Cities
Shale Gas production and Transport
Geothermal Recovery

Faculty Expertise: Coit, Jafari, Elsayed, Pham, Aziz Ezzat

Advanced Manufacturing

Precision/Micro-machining
Laser Material Processing
Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing
Sheet Folding Theory and Technology
Discrete Event Dynamics Systems
Manufacturing Automation

Faculty Expertise: Ozel, Elsayed, Jafari

Security

Risk Analysis
Security Games

Faculty Expertise: Gursoy, Jafari

Transportation Systems

Traffic Safety, Mobility and Incidence Management
Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Aviation and Unmanned Aircraft Systems
System Safety and Risk Analysis
Human and Machine Interactions

Faculty Expertise: Jeong, Gursoy, Elsayed, Pham, Jafari

Healthcare

Health Delivery Services
Orthopedics
Occupational Health
Human and Machine Interactions

Faculty Expertise: Pham

System Health Monitoring and Control

Sensory Networks and Data Fusion
Infrastructure Networks

Faculty Expertise: Elsayed, Jeong, Aziz Ezzat

Smart Systems

Human and Machine Interactions
AI and Machine Learning
Internet of Things
Industry 4.0
Digital Twin