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Industrial Engineering
At Georgia Tech, formal study in the discipline of Industrial Engineering (IE) began in 1924 in the form of a program option in Mechanical Engineering; later, in1948, the stand-alone Department of Industrial Engineering was established. Throughout its long history, Georgia Tech's identification and presence within the field of industrial engineering has been an important one. Not only one of the oldest academic programs of its kind, it has also been one of the most influential in guiding and shaping the discipline. Indeed, the original Journal of Industrial Engineering was started at Georgia Tech and its first editor was a member of the IE faculty. Based now in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), study and research in modern industrial engineering continues to thrive at Georgia Tech and its influence in the field remains prominent.
Traditionally, between 1000 and 1200 students are enrolled in the undergraduate BSIE program which makes it, by far, the largest undergraduate academic program of it kind in the United States. The School awards approximately 300 undergraduate degrees every year. At the masters level, the Stewart School supports several options. In IE, by far the most popular of these is the program leading to the degree Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. Applicants interested in more focused sub-disciplines related to interest areas often associated with modern IE find appealing the Master of Science in Health Systems and the Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance, while some, consider masters degrees in Statistics, Operations Research, and Computational Science and Engineering. At the doctoral level, admitted students pursue the Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering which breaks down into four, distinct specializations: supply chain engineering, statistics, economic decision analysis, and system informatics and control.
