Standard MSIE curriculum for students concentrating in physical ergonomics

(Revised 15 June 01)

This page is designed to help new graduate students pursuing the MSIE degree, who will be concentrating in physical ergonomics, to design a Plan of Graduate Work.  All students should discuss and finalize their POGW with their advisor. Students should also refer to the Industrial Engineering Department's pages that describe the department's requirements in detail (click here to access those pages).

Fall I

IE 544 Occupational Biomechanics (for major & HFES accreditation)
IE 740 Human Factors in Systems Design (for major & HFES accreditation)
IE 601 Industrial Engineering Seminar (for major)
and Choose one from the Breadth List below (for breadth requirement)
Spring I
IE 796 Research Practicum in Occupational Biomechanics (for major)
IE 543 Musculoskeletal Mechanics (for major)
and Choose one from:
ST 508 - Statistics For the Behavioral Sciences II (for minor, breadth requirements, & HFES accreditation)
ST 512 - Experimental Statistics For Biological Sciences II (for minor, breadth requirements, & HFES accreditation)
ST 516 - Experimental Statistics For Engineers II (for minor, breadth requirements, & HFES accreditation)
Fall II
IE 767 or IE 768 Upper Extremity / Spine Biomechanics (offered alternating years) (for major)
Choose 1 from the Breadth List below (for breadth requirement)
and One Minor course to be decided by student and advisor (for minor requirement)
Spring II
PSY 744 Human Information Processing (for minor & HFES accreditation)
IE 696 Thesis hours (6 hours)
or other elective classes as desired
Breadth List (students are required to choose one course from two different groups)
* - indicates courses often taken by ergo students Group A - Management Systems IE 546 Management Decision and Control Systems
IE 711* Capital Investment Economic Analysis
IE 712 Bayesian Decision Analysis for Engineers and Managers
IE 725 Organizational Planning and Control Group C - Operations Research OR 504 Introduction to Mathematical Programming
OR 505 Linear Programming
OR 709 Dynamic Programming
IE 760 Applied Stochastic Models in Industrial Engineering
OR 761 Queues and Stochastic Service Systems
OR 762* Computer Simulation Techniques Group D - Production Systems IE 723* Production Planning, Scheduling and Inventory Control
IE 748 Quality Engineering
IE 753* Material Handling Systems
IE 754 Facility Location and Layout
IE 755 The Just-In-Time Production System Group E - Manufacturing Systems IE 514* Product Engineering
IE 706 Design of Flexible Manufacturing Systems
IE 715* Process Engineering
IE 716 Computer-Aided Manufacturing
IE 719 CIM System Design
IE 720 Industrial Robotics Group F - Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics CSC 520 Artificial Intelligence I
CSC 742 Database Management Systems
MA 520 Linear Algebra
MA 580 Numerical Analysis I
ST 516 Experimental Statistics for Engineers (or ST 512)
ST 711 Design of Experiments

Questions about the Ergonomics area within the Department of Industrial Engineering can be directed to Dr. Gary Mirka, Dr. Carolyn Sommerich, or Dr. David Kaber.

General questions about graduate studies in the Department of Industrial Engineering should be directed to Dr. Henry Nuttle or Dr. Shu-Cherng Fang.