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Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
UPCOMING EVENTS & DEPARTMENTAL NEWS
Presentation Days were held on Monday, April 28 and Wednesday, April 30 in the Robert G. Carson Memorial Conference Room, 401 Daniels Hall, on the NCSU campus. 1st place awards were selected in three (3) project areas out of ten (10) project teams.
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Dr. Constance Lightner, a 2000 alumna of the Operations Research Program at NC State, was recently selected to receive the prestigious UNC Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence. She was supervised by NCSU ISE professor Dr. Shu-Cherng Fang.
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The department congratulates Clarence Smith, who was recently appointed by Governor Easley to the NC Board of Refrigeration Examiners. For the official news release click here.
Department is recognized in ISE student Jessica Jeppsson's debut piece in the "Emerging Technologies" section of IE Magazine. Click here to view a PDF version of the article.
Alumnus Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri visits NCSU for the 2008 Emerging Issues Forum.
Pup's surgery could help humans
Professor Ola Harrysson works with the College of Veterinary Science to develop a titanium plate for "Pez" that may be a breakthrough in future surgery...for humans!
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We’ve got your number
Try some of these on for size: our roster currently includes over 200 undergraduate students and about 100 graduate students. Our research contracts and grants now approach $4 million. We have 23 full-time professors and nine adjunct professors. We recently celebrated the department’s 75th anniversary. The department is the proud beneficiary of a $10 million endowment from Edward P. Fitts. We consistently rank among U.S. News and World Report’s top 12 industrial engineering programs in the country. And we’ve got about a million reasons to be proud.
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What’s the diff?
We offer two master’s degree programs: the Master's of Industrial Engineering (M.I.E.) and the Master's of Science in Industrial Engineering (M.S.). The basic difference is that the M.I.E. is intended as a final degree for self-supported, military, part-time, and co-op students preparing for a career in industry, government, or consulting, while the M.S. degree is research-oriented and considered to be a prerequisite for a Ph.D. The M.S. involves some depth of study in a specified area of concentration and requires a research thesis.
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Is there a doctor in the house?
The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Industrial Engineering requires the highest level of knowledge and scholarship, along with a written dissertation based upon results of original investigation. Part of the reason our Ph.D. graduates are so well-rounded is that they’re required to take one course from each of our four areas of concentration – production systems, manufacturing systems, human factors and ergonomics, and systems analysis and optimization. Getting a Ph.D. takes smarts, aptitude and a lot of hard work. And it’s all worth it in the end.
Academics
A program with both depth and breadth
The Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering provides an engineering education in production systems design and control, manufacturing automation and quality control, simulation analysis and optimization, work design, human factors and ergonomics, and economic analysis.
Or, to put it another way, in just about every area of the field.
This broad-based approach prepares graduates for employment as industrial or systems engineers in both traditional industries and service and consulting fields.
Graduate students can choose from among four concentrations:
- Production systems, including planning, scheduling, routing, inventory control, logistics, materials handling, facility design, reliability, quality control, and information systems.
- Manufacturing systems, including manufacturing processes, CAD/CAM, CIM, robotics, automation, and concurrent engineering.
- Human factors and ergonomics, including human performance, occupational safety, and biomechanics.
- Systems analysis and optimization, including mathematical programming, stochastic processes, simulation, and modeling.
Undergraduate students gain broad exposure to industrial and systems engineering in general, or furniture manufacturing specifically.
In addition, our curriculum is always evolving to meet the specific and unique needs of employers and residents of the state of North Carolina (part of our mandate as a land-grant university). Furniture is a major industry in North Carolina – hence, the furniture manufacturing track mentioned above. And now, in response to a changing society and our proximity to Research Triangle Park, we have created a biomanufacturing track and a masters program in pharmaceutical engineering, and we are expanding our curriculum into health systems engineering, logistics systems engineering and bioproduction systems engineering.
ABET accreditation
The Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology* (ABET). The following documents are used in conjunction with the accreditation process.
- Planning Document
- Program Educational Objectives
- Program Educational Objectives & Relationship to Criterion 3
- Program Outcomes
- Outcomes Assessment Plan
- Assessment Summary
- Course Syllabi
Departmental Surveys
- Faculty Survey
- Faculty Survey Results
- Senior Exit Interview/Survey
- Senior Survey Results & Comment
- Employer Survey Form
- Project Assessment Survey Form
*The Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (as well as the optional Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, Furniture Manufacturing) is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012; 410-347-7700.
For more information, contact Mr. Clarence Smith, Assistant Department Head.
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Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology