Culminating Experience

Understanding your path to a graduate degree starts here. From required coursework and credit hours to research, thesis or dissertation components, these guidelines are designed to help you plan your studies and stay on track toward graduation.

Whether you’re pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree, you’ll find the key information needed to navigate your program, maintain academic progress and successfully meet all degree requirements.

Master’s Program

Industrial and Systems Engineering students can tailor their graduate experience to match their career goals through two dynamic degree pathways: a research-focused thesis or an applied, real-world capstone project. Whether you’re interested in diving deep into advanced research or gaining hands-on experience solving industry-relevant challenges, both options are designed to strengthen your analytical skills, expand your technical expertise and prepare you for success in a competitive engineering landscape. With guidance from expert faculty and opportunities to tackle meaningful problems, you’ll graduate ready to make an immediate impact in your field.

Doctoral Program

The Ph.D. program in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems offers an interdisciplinary study opportunity for students from systems and industrial engineering, operations research and engineering management and related fields. The doctoral students following the systems optimization and management track can develop the analytical skills and business sense necessary to optimize and manage the complex interaction within infrastructure and/or environmental systems.

Students must take core courses, focus area elective courses, directed studies and dissertation credits to support doctoral research. The general research areas include but are not limited to: Logistics and Supply Chains, Lean Six Sigma, Energy Systems, Sustainable Systems Modeling, and Systems Modeling and Analytics.