The discipline of Industrial Engineering covers a wide range of topics. The U currently offers numerous courses within the realms of Industrial Engineering with degree programs being considered for future development. This page describes the U’s current Industrial Engineering opportunities, which include closely related programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels and variety of IE courses that can be taken as electives in other programs.
Also, for students pursuing a BS in Mechanical Engineering, an Emphasis in Industrial Engineering is available. Interested students can learn more by speaking with their Mechanical Engineering advisor.
Core Area: Human Factors and Ergonomics
The U currently offers a Master of Occupational Health that is directed by the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health. The U's extensive course catalogue in ergonomics and environmental health is developed and offered in partnership with both the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and Weber State University. Students are often eligible to earn scholarships and funding from the Rocky Mountain Center each year.
ME EN 6100 Ergonomics
ME EN 6130 Design Implications for Human-Machine Systems
ME EN 6140 Occupational Health and Safety Solutions
ME EN 6150 Introduction to Product Safety and Engineering Ethics
ME EN 7100 Advanced Ergonomics: Occupational Biomechanics
ME EN 7110 System Safety
ME EN 7120 Musculosketal Functional Anatomy for Engineers
Optimization and Decision Making
ME EN 6030 Reliability Engineering
ME EN 6035 Design of Experiments
ME EN 6040 Quality Assurance Engineering
SIME 6000 Analytics for Systems Management
SIME 6050 Operations Research for Systems
SIME 6060 Discrete Event Systems Simulation
SIME 6450 Design of Production and Service Systems
SIME 6560 Engineering Economic Analysis
Improving Existing Systems
OSC 6421 Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
OSC 6422 Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
SIME 6000 Analytics for Systems Management
SIME 6050 Operations Research for Systems
SIME 6060 Discrete Event Systems Simulation
SIME 6410 Systems Engineering and Integration
SIME 6450 Design of Production and Service Systems
Other Related Topics
Industrial Engineering topics tend to span into numerous other disciplines. Besides Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, other courses exist across campus that are frequently in a curriculum of industrial engineers. A few of these areas include:
Data Science/Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence - the Kahlert School of Computing
Databases and Information Systems - the Kahlert School of Computing or the Department of Operations and Information Systems.
Manufacturing - the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Statistics - the Department of Mathematics