Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management

The MPhil degree normally requires two years of full-time study after completion of a bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related area. The MPhil focuses on strengthening students’ knowledge in their chosen area of concentration, and training for engineering research and development. The program is highly suited to individuals who aspire to take a leading technical role in Hong Kong’s high value-added business organizations.

MPhil students are supervised by a Department faculty member. Any student who intends to go on to study a PhD degree is strongly encouraged to enroll in the MPhil program. In the MPhil program, a student is required to take a minimum of 15 credits of approved postgraduate coursework, with at least three courses (nine credits) from the following list:

• IELM 5110 Information System Design
• IELM 5170 Advanced Production Planning and Control
• IELM 5230 Deterministic Models in Operations Research
• IELM 5250 Stochastic Models in Operations Research
• IELM 5260 Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments
• IELM 5270 Engineering Statistics
• IELM 5320 Design for People
• IELM 5520 Contextual Design for Decision Support Systems

Students are required to take and pass ENGG6770 Professional Development in Engineering in their first 1.5 years of study.

Students are also required to participate in the departmental seminar series (IELM 6800) for at least two semesters.

MPhil students must pass the one-credit LANG 5001  Postgraduate English for Academic Purposes course. However, credit earned from LANG 5001 cannot be counted toward degree requirements. Students may be exempted from LANG 5001 by the department head or postgraduate coordinator based on  students’ background and/or the HKUST Language Center’s English proficiency assessment.

If a student participates in an industrial-sponsored project and writes his/her thesis on a work-related topic, the thesis may be jointly supervised by a qualified faculty member at HKUST and an invited adjunct faculty member from industry, who is highly familiar with the student’s research work.

Requirements

• Applicants for postgraduate research programs should normally have a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering or a related field and a proven record of performance
• Students admitted to a postgraduate program must demonstrate competence in the following core areas: (a) linear algebra; and (b) probability and applied statistics. Those deemed inadequate in these areas may be required to take a set of remedial courses prescribed by the Department’s postgraduate committee and obtain at least a grade B in these courses.
• You will fulfill the English Language requirements with one of the following proficiency attainments:TOEFL-iBT 80, TOEFL PBT 550, IELTS Overall score: 6.0
• You are required to nominate 2-5 referees to support your application. Upon your application submission, the referees will be invited by email to complete a reference report online. Referees may attach additional reference letters to the online report if they wish to.
• Remember that you will need to send official documents to substantiate your qualifications/ exam results after accepting an admission offer. 

Scholarships

• UC RUSAL PG Exchange Award