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Program Prerequisites

Students with undergraduate degrees in industrial engineering or other engineering degrees are encouraged to apply for admission. Students with other engineering degrees may be required to take additional prerequisites.

All applicants are expected to have completed the following prerequisites during their undergraduate engineering education:


Applicants from Non-Engineering Backgrounds
The MSIE program is intended for students with undergraduate degrees in engineering. If your degree is in a non-engineering field, you should instead consider the Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, which is specifically designed to build the necessary engineering foundation.


Degree Requirements

Required Courses

12Total Credits
  • Complete all of the following
    • Complete the following:
      • ESI6551 - Systems Engineering (3)
      • ESI6224 - Quality Management (3)
      • ESI6247 - Experimental Design and Taguchi Methods (3)
    • Complete at least 1 of the following:
      • ESI5306 - Operations Research (3)
      • ESI6418 - Linear Programming and Extensions (3)

Elective Courses

12Total Credits
  • Complete all of the following
    • All students, both thesis and nonthesis, must take 12 credit hours of electives after consultation with their advisor.\n\nThe program requirements are flexible enough to allow the students to tailor the coursework according to their desired educational and career goals. The listing of these courses does not guarantee that they will be offered by the department in a particular year or semester.\n\nIn addition to the courses listed below, students may be allowed to take courses from the following disciplines at UCF, with the approval of the graduate program director, as an elective in their graduate program of study:\nOther Industrial Engineering Courses \nOther Engineering Programs\nComputer Science\nMathematics \nStatistics \nBusiness Administration or Management\nModeling and Simulation\n\nElective courses beyond those listed in the graduate catalog, and others outside the department and/or program, are permitted at the discretion of the student’s advisor and/or graduate program director.
    • Earn at least 12 credits from the following:
      • EIN5251 - Usability Engineering (3)
      • EIN6258 - Human Computer Interaction (3)
      • EIN6271 - Human Reliability (3)
      • ESI6225 - Quality Design and Control (3)
      • EIN6336 - Production and Inventory Control (3)
      • EIN5356 - Cost Engineering (3)
      • ESI5219 - Engineering Statistics (3)
      • ESI5227 - Total Quality Improvement (3)
      • ESI6261 - Service System Quality Engineering (3)
      • EIN6182 - Engineering Management (3)
      • EIN5117 - Management Information Systems I (3)
      • EIN6370 - Innovation in Engineering Design (3)
      • EIN6339 - Operations Engineering (3)
      • EIN5108 - The Environment of Technical Organizations (3)
      • EIN5140 - Project Engineering (3)
      • ESI6336 - Queueing Systems (3)
      • ESI6532 - Object-Oriented Simulation (3)
      • ESI5531 - Discrete Systems Simulation (3)
      • EIN5255C - Interactive Simulation (3)
      • EIN6528 - Simulation Based Life Cycle Engineering (3)
      • EIN6936 - Seminar in Advanced Industrial Engineering (3)
      • ESI6217 - Statistical Aspects of Digital Simulation (3)
      • ESI6535 - Advanced Agent-Based Modeling (3)
      • ESI6511 - Systems Integration and Testing (3)
      • ESI6550 - Systems Thinking in Engineering (3)
      • ESI6552 - Systems Architecture (3)
      • ESI6358 - Decision Analysis (3)
      • ESI5359 - Risk Assessment and Management (3)
      • EIN5248 - Ergonomics (3)
      • EIN6215 - System Safety Engineering and Management (3)
      • ESI5236 - Reliability Engineering (3)
      • EIN5346 - Engineering Logistics (3)
      • EIN6357 - Advanced Engineering Economic Analysis (3)

Thesis/Nonthesis Option

6Total Credits
  • Complete 1 of the following
      Nonthesis Option
    • Complete all of the following
      • Complete the following:
        • EIN6950 - Industrial and Systems Engineering Capstone (3)
      • Earn at least 3 credits from the following types of courses:
        Additional Elective Course.
      • The nonthesis option requires a capstone course and an additional unrestricted elective course that supports the student's area of research and study interests. The capstone course should be completed toward the end of the student's graduate plan of study. As part of the requirements of this course, students will complete an independent capstone project on a topic relevant to the industrial and systems engineering field and approved by the instructor. Students are expected to use and leverage knowledge obtained in the program to complete the project. This course serves as the culminating experience for students and shows their engagement in independent learning.
      • Thesis Option
    • Complete all of the following
      • Earn at least 6 credits from the following types of courses:
        EIN 6971 - Thesis.
      • The thesis option requires an additional 6 credit hours of thesis. Thesis students must complete an independent research project and write and successfully defend a thesis describing the project. Students may not register for thesis credit hours until an advisory committee has been appointed and the committee has reviewed the program of study and the proposed thesis topic.\n\nThe College of Engineering and Computer Science requires that all thesis defense announcements are approved by the student's adviser and posted on the college's website (http://www.cecs.ucf.edu/graddefense/) and on the College of Graduate Studies Events Calendar at least two weeks before the defense date.

Grand Total Credits: 30

Financial Information

Graduate students may receive financial assistance through fellowships, assistantships, tuition support, or loans. For more information, see the College of Graduate Studies Funding website, which describes the types of financial assistance available at UCF and provides general guidance in planning your graduate finances. The Financial Information section of the Graduate Catalog is another key resource.

UCF Student Financial Assistance
Millican Hall 120
Telephone: 407-823-2827
Appointment Line: 407-823-5285
Fax: 407-823-5241
finaid@ucf.edu
Website

Fellowship Information

Fellowships are awarded based on academic merit to highly qualified students. They are paid to students through the Office of Student Financial Assistance, based on instructions provided by the College of Graduate Studies. Fellowships are given to support a student's graduate study and do not have a work obligation. For more information, see UCF Graduate Fellowships, which includes descriptions of university fellowships and what you should do to be considered for a fellowship.

Grad Fellowships
Telephone: 407-823-0127
gradfellowship@ucf.edu
Website

Equipment Fee

Full-time students in the Industrial Engineering MSIE program pay a $58 equipment fee each semester that they are enrolled. Part-time students pay $29 each semester that they are enrolled.

Independent Learning

A research project serves as the independent learning experience for thesis students. Nonthesis students are required to complete the department's capstone course toward the end of their program.

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