BS in Industrial Engineering

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The Industrial Engineering Curriculum is designed for students who desire to enter industry or pursue advanced studies. The curriculum provides a broad range of courses in the areas of human interface design and management, plant design, operations research, production and inventory control and quality control.

Vision

The Industrial Engineering Program strives to graduate industrial engineers of the highest quality and to conduct state-of-the-art research for the end-to-end enterprise.

Mission

The Industrial Engineering Program makes available a high quality, relevant engineering education available to all residents of the El Paso bi-national region. The department dedicates itself to providing Indicates Texas Common Course Number (TCCN) students with a set of skills, knowledge and attitudes that will permit its graduates to succeed and thrive as engineers and leaders.

Program Educational Objectives

1. Prepare all students for jobs in the competitive global marketplace and potential success in leadership positions.
2. Prepare and motivate students to be successful in graduate studies.

Student Outcomes

The Industrial Engineering program must demonstrate that their graduates have:

1. an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to solve industrial engineering problems;
2. an ability to design experiments, collect data, analyze data, and interpret results;
3. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired need within realistic constrains such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health & safety, manufacturability & sustainability;
4. an ability to function as a team member in team-based problem solving activities;
5. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve industrial engineering problems;
6. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility;
7. an ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal forms;
8. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context;
9. a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in professional development in industrial engineering;
10. familiarity of the need for, and an ability to engage in professional development in industrial engineering;
11. an ability to put into practice techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools learned in school.

Joint Degree BS-MBA Program

Students with at least 90 hours accumulated toward their degree, a cumulative GPA of at least 3.30, and admission to the full-time MBA program can pursue a joint-degree BS-MBA program.  Students admitted to this program (a) will apply credit for ECON 5360 Global Econ Environment-Mgrs, BLAW 5306 Business Law and Ethics, and ACCT 5301 Financial Accounting toward the requirements of two technical electives and IE 2326 Eng Economy for IE Majors and (b) will apply credit for nine credit hours of dual-credit graduate courses in Industrial (IE), Manufacturing (MFG) or Systems (SE) Engineering toward the elective requirements of the MBA program.