Industrial and Management Engineering

The department offers the Master of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in Industrial and Management Engineering. Both degrees require a minimum of 30 credit hours. The Master of Science degree requires a thesis. The Master of Engineering degree is a non-thesis option. In general, all applicants to the IME master’s programs must take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).

To complete the Master’s degree requirements, students must include a minimum of 24 credits from the list of approved Industrial and Management Engineering courses for the master’s program. The courses selected may include the two required prerequisite courses listed below but must simultaneously define an adviser-approved, application-focused concentration area, (e.g., manufacturing logistics, optimization, complex systems modeling, etc.). A minimum of 50% of credit hours in the plan of study must be at the 6000 level or higher.

Prerequisite requirements for the master’s programs include the following courses or their equivalents:

• ISYE 4140 - Statistical Analysis Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 6610 - Systems Modeling in Decision Sciences Credit Hours: 3

Approved Industrial and Information Systems Engineering Courses

The following courses may be included among the 24 credits of restricted electives:

• ISYE 4200 - Design and Analysis of Work Systems Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4210 - Design and Analysis of Supply Chains Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4220 - Optimization Algorithms and Applications Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4230 - Quality Control Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4240 - Engineering Project Management Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4250 - Facilities Design and Industrial Logistics Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4260 - Human Performance Modeling and Support Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4290 - Discrete Event Simulation Modeling and Analysis Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 4300 - Complex Systems Models for Industrial and Systems Engineering Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4310 - Ethics of Modeling for Industrial and System Engineering Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 4760 - Mathematical Statistics Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 4810 - Computational Intelligence Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6010 - Applied Regression Analysis Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6020 - Design of Experiments Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6100 - Time Series Analysis Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6140 - Exploratory Data Analysis Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6180 - Knowledge Discovery with Data Mining Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6210 - Theory of Production Scheduling Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6530 - Decision Support and Expert Systems Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6610 - Systems Modeling in Decision Sciences Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6760 - Combinatorial Optimization and Integer Programming Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 6770 - Linear Programming Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 6780 - Nonlinear Programming Credit Hours: 4
• ISYE 6820 - Queuing Systems and Applications Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6870 - Introduction to Neural Networks Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6960 - Topics in ISYE Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 6965 - Agent Based Simulation Methods Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 696x - Stochastic Models of Supply Chain  Credit Hours: 3
• ISYE 696x - Group Decision Making and Cognition  Credit Hours: 3

Requirements

1. Nonrefundable application processing fee of $75.
2. Statement of Background and Goals
3. Resume or curriculum vitae.
4. Two letters of recommendation.
5. Writing samples, if required by department.
6. IT Background Evaluation form (IT only).
7. Copies of official test scores (GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, IELTS, and PTE)
8. Copies of official transcripts and evidence of degrees earned, in English and in the native language, of all post-secondary education (including transcript keys)
9. Copy of your passport (international students only)
10. TOEFL score of 230 CBT/88 iBT/570 PBT (IELTS 6.5 or PTE 60)

Scholarships

Teaching Assistants

Students assist Rensselaer faculty in their classroom and laboratory activities, gaining valuable experience as researchers, scholars, and teachers. Departments provide stipends and full-tuition waivers. Master’s students may spend a maximum of one year with internal support; doctoral students may spend a maximum of two years with internal support. Continued support can then be provided by means of research assistantships.

Research Assistants

Students work with the faculty in research-related tasks that further the student’s own graduate career and development as a researcher, scholar, and professional. Research assistants are paid a stipend and are given a full waiver of tuition.

Graduate Fellowships

Outstanding students may be awarded a university-supported Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship Award, which carries a full-tuition and fees scholarship and a minimum stipend of $21,500 per academic year. Students are nominated by their departments for Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship consideration.

Graduate Education Program (Russia)

Selected GEP Scholarship students are eligible for a renewable scholarship in the amount of 1,38 mln. rubles per year. Students in science and engineering fields are eligible for GEP funding. For application details and deadlines, please visit http://educationglobal.ru/en/. Applicants must be admitted to Rensselaer prior to finalizing the application for the GEP program.