Industrial engineering technology students can choose to pursue either a B.S. or B.Tech. Both degrees contain a wide range of high technology courses, courses from related fields, and liberal arts coursework to provide a broad-based education. The B.S. degree requires more arts and sciences electives and may be preferred by some employers. Both degrees are designed to provide students with a broad-based education and the opportunity to create a specialized program by following one of the areas of concentration or by selecting technical courses to fill an individual interest or career plan. This area is designed for possible positions in highly automated industries which utilize robots.
Emphasis is on design and implementation of robots in industrial applications.
Coursework is provided in such areas as introduction to robotics, robotics application and seminar, robot mechanisms, robot sensors and interfacing, robot vision, and digital image processing. This area concentrates on the traditional industrial engineering technology courses. Coursework is offered in such areas as engineering economics, plant layout, operations research, simulation and optimization, manufacturing control, advanced method study, industrial safety. and industrial administration. This area covers manufacturing and industrial processes in industry. In this area, the use of microcomputers in manufacturing is explored.