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Objectives and Outcomes for the Undergraduate Program at the Stewart School

Program Objectives

  • To prepare students to function effectively and provide leadership within an organization as an IE professional.
  • To provide students a comprehensive education including methodological and computational skills with which to operate effectively within the IE problem domain, through training in problem representation, abstraction, and validation.
  • To prepare students to effectively present and sell their solutions and to do so in the context of written, oral, and electronic media.
  • To prepare students for life-long growth within the field/profession of industrial and systems engineering.

Program Outcomes

Upon graduation, the students will have obtained:

  • An ability to apply mathematics, science and engineering to the IE domain.
  • An ability to collect and analyze appropriate data.
  • An ability to apply IE methods to the design of constrained systems.
  • An ability to work in teams.
  • An ability to describe a problem, recognize its difficulty, and develop and evaluate potential solutions.
  • An understanding of their professional and ethical responsibilities.
  • An ability to present results effectively.
  • An ability to determine the impact of IE domain solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and social context.
  • An ability to continue to develop in the field.
  • Knowledge of current issues relevant to IE domain.
  • An ability to participate effectively within an organization.
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