Technical electives must be taken for a grade. This option provides an opportunity for students to broaden their educational experience by taking advanced courses with a minimal concern for grades earned due to the lack of necessary prerequisite material. Introductory courses must be taken for a grade. The general rules stated under the graduation requirements for engineering are in effect for all industrial engineering students. The industrial engineering curriculum was designed to have no more than five required courses per semester with an academic load of 15-16 credits hours.
Students can take additional courses of their own choice on a voluntary basis.
The six hours of free electives in the senior year with a graduation requirement of 131 hours was purposely omitted, and the curriculum was reduced to 125 hours in order to permit more flexibility in selecting additional courses. Each student should develop his or her individual plan of study on the work sheet provided in the published version of this guide taking into account the necessary prerequisites and corequisite sequences. If you have a Java capable web browser, you can use the IE Curriculum Planner Java Applet to work out your individual plan of study. The Plan Of Study Java Applet allows you to send an E-Mail to yourself which contains your plan of study. The School of Industrial Engineering strives to achieve a balance in the number of students taking the upper-division courses during the fall and spring semesters.