Specialty Area 3: Healthcare and Service Systems Engineering

Three Core Prerequisites or Equivalents, if not completed yet:

  • ISE 201 – Engineering Statistics, or Equivalent (Not for Graduate Credit) 
  • ISE 140 – Operations Planning and Control, or Equivalent (Not for Graduate Credit)
  • ISE 167 – System Simulation, or Equivalent

Four Core Courses

  • ISE 230 – Advanced Operations Research
  • ISE 240 – Analytics for Systems Engineering
  • ISE 235 – Quality Assurance and Reliability
  • ISE 298 – M.S. Project or Comprehensive Exam. or ISE 299 - MS Thesis

Four Specialty Courses

Two Required Courses:

  • ISE 242 – Advanced Service Systems Engineering and Management or ISE 222 - Advance Systems Engineering
  • ISE 260 – Process Improvements in Healthcare

Two out of the Following Four Courses:

  • ISE 200 – Financial Methods for Engineers
  • ISE 250 – Leading the Six Sigma Improvement Projects
  • ISE 251 – Managing Lean Enterprise Improvement Program
  • ISE 261 – Medical Errors Reduction and Patients Safety Engineering
  • ISE 213 – Principles of Engineering Management
  • ISE 214 – Enterprise Engineering
  • ISE 223 – Decision Models for Sustainable Development
  • ISE 216 – Service Design Process and Methods

Two Electives

  • Two graduate ISE courses in other specialty areas/See Graduate Advisor