Advising @ ISyE

The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering has an award winning academic advising team that provides personal and hands-on experience. We encourage students to come in and meet with their academic advisors on a regular basis. Academic advisors can help with curriculum planning, academic support, registration, identifying campus resources and general questions.

Advising

Spring 2023 Undergraduate Advising Information

Every Thursday during Spring 2023, from 9:30 to 11:30am and from 1:30 to 3:30pm, we offer virtual drop-in advising.  Detailed instructions and the form on which to sign up are available here:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSXyoULlvCRQ2N7Mbwyx6fvX3vZ75xO5GC34eTOsn4n0jADA/viewform
 
Every day of the week, we accept Academic Advising appointments made on the advising system: https://advisor.gatech.edu/ 

James Turneur (Last Names A-F)

Frances Buser (Last Names G-L)

Sudie Pennebaker Davis (Last Names M-R)

Jonathan Lowe (Last Names S-Z)

 

Please use your GT email address and include your GTID # on all correspondence.

 

Change of Major Information for Non-ISyE Majors

  • ​Major restrictions for certain ISyE courses will be lifted on the Wednesday of the first week of classes during each term.  For information about course-specific restrictions, please use OSCAR.
  • We do not advise non-ISyE majors during registration.  
    • If you are interested in changing your major to ISyE, please sign up for the next information session here.

    • If you are currently an ISyE Change of Major Candidate: ​

      • Continue taking the four required courses to qualify for change of major.

      • If your overall GPA is less than 3.0, you may continue taking classes to bring up your GPA.  ISyE lifts restrictions for select courses on the last Wednesday of Phase II.

      • Other questions?   Please email Fran Buser.

Tentative Special Topics Courses for Fall 2023

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 4843 A

92751

 Proj Eval People/Planet/Profit Breadth for all Zhou, Chen; Thomas, Valerie; and Lowe, Jonathan Senior standing, ISYE 3025 (with concurrency) and ISYE 3030 Human needs include physiological needs, social needs, and economic needs. These needs are related to social, environmental, and economic needs, aka People, Planet, and Profit, commonly referred to as triple bottom line (3BL). Traditionally, project evaluations have been based on financial terms only, which is part of the economic evaluation. However, more and more people and firms are realizing that such evaluations are insufficient. In this course, we will introduce the concepts of the triple bottom line, the project evaluations associated with it, and apply the concepts to a specific project designed to satisfy those needs.
ISYE 4801 GLV TBD Product Development Design to Value Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Lopez Velarde, Guillermo Junior or senior standing The objective of this course is to introduce the Design-to-Value (DTV) approach and its main processes. DTV is a methodology aimed at improving product portfolio margin through design optimization, and is comprised of three main lenses: consumer, design and supply insights. The focus will be to internalize best in class practices across these three lenses, through a combination of theory and hands on practice modules. Real physical products will be used to support both, training during class and a team project. Special emphasis will be placed on how well each team incorporates DTV best practices into the project’s solution and how well the team presents the findings throughout the course. In addition to learning the DTV methodology, this course should also improve other skills such as teamwork, presentation skills, both oral and written, critical thinking and problem solving.
ISYE 4801 TRE

86708

 Business Essentials for IE Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Trebuchon, Maurice Junior or senior standing This course will meet weekly for 50 minutes on Wednesdays at 11:00am.  The course will address business topics that complement and extend the value of the ISyE curriculum, so as to better prepare students to pragmatically apply what they have learned in the business setting.  Topics to be addressed include business models & competitive differentiation, process & activity modeling, financial measurement, pragmatic solution design, organizational designs & dynamics, and organizational change management.  This will be accomplished via a combination of class lectures, in class case examples, guest speakers and one or more group projects.   There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 GEB

85692

 Reliability Engineering Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Gebraeel, Nagi ISYE 3030 and senior standing This course covers major topics in Reliability Engineering. Students learn about different failure models used to characterize component failures (statistical and physical), and how these models can be extended and used to evaluate system-level reliability. Students will also gain in-depth knowledge about the interplay between reliability goals and product design, and the effect reliability has on overall life-cycle costs and system effectiveness. Availability and Maintainability concepts will also be discussed, especially, popular maintenance concepts like preventive and condition-based maintenance. Finally, students will learn about analysis of failure data including concepts such as censoring, accelerated life tests, and reliability growth testing.
ISYE 4803 JOS

90317

 Design of Experiments Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Joseph, Roshan ISYE 3039 OR ISYE 4031

In this course you will learn about efficient methods for obtaining data through experiments, which can be used for understanding and developing causal relationships between inputs and outputs of a system. Design of experiments (DOE) is a plan for doing such experiments. The aim of DOE is to maximize the information in the data with minimum cost. DOE is an essential tool for quality improvement and product/process optimization. The course will also deal with the design and analysis of computationally expensive simulations, also known as computer experiments, and how it can be integrated with physical experiments. The course will be taught using the statistical software R.
ISYE 4803 MCG

86469

 Systems Design for IE's Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 4803 MCG. McGinnis, Leon ISYE 3232 and ISYE 3133 and senior standing This course will present an engineering approach to the design of discrete event logistics systems, or DELS. Examples of DELS include warehouses, discrete parts manufacturing, logistics systems, and health care delivery systems.  While the course will engage analysis tools, like queueing theory, simulation, and optimization, it also will engage decision theory and design theory. 
ISYE 4803 REV

81965

 Advanced Manufacturing Depth for SCE and General, breadth for all others. Reveliotis, Spyros ISYE 3104 and senior standing Provides an in-depth modeling and analysis of the workflow dynamics that shape the operation and the performance of contemporary production systems.
ISYE 4803 WHE

93205

Tools for Data Analytics

Depth for Analytics, General; Breadth for Q&S, OR, SCE, and E&FS

 Wang, He ISYE 3030 and CS 2316

This course is an introduction to Python-based tools and practical programming techniques for data analysis and machine learning. You will learn to build the essential components of a data analysis pipeline: data extraction, preprocessing, analysis, prediction, and visualization. The course includes a series of hands-on lab sessions where you will be working on real-world data sets. Through these hands-on sessions, you will see examples of a process that starts with high-level analysis questions, formalizes those questions into mathematical or computational problems, develops solutions for those problems, and translates solutions into working code. The main programming language for the course is Python, which has become the most widely used programming language in the data science industry. Prior experience with Python is required.
ISYE 4803 XIY

93206

 Foundations and Applications of Machine Learning

Depth for Q&S, Analytics, General; Breadth for OR, SCE, and E&FS

 Xie, Yao ISYE 3030 and ISYE 3232 and ISYE 3133 and senior standing

This course is designed to give senior undergraduate students a thorough grounding in the methods, theory, mathematics, and algorithms needed in machine learning. The course covers basic topics from machine learning and related knowledge needed from statistics and data mining.

Tentative Special Topics Courses for Spring 2023

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 4801 MUL 30089 Work Measurement & Forensics Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Mulaik, Stephen ISYE 3030(2028), ISYE 3232, CS 4400 This course introduces students to labor standard, motion analysis, time study and work transaction.
ISYE 4801 TRE 26573 Preparing for Consulting Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Trebuchon, Maurice Jr or Sr standing One fifty-minute session held weekly on Fridays at 11 am. The course will provide an overview of the consulting market, consulting specialties, hot market skill areas, and typical consulting approaches and tools, via a combination of class lecture, case study exercises, and guest speaker presentations. Several times during the semester students will be expected to prepare and submit one page memorandums based on guest speaker learnings. In addition, there will be a case study report to be submitted at semester conclusion. There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 CIF 31454 Nonlinear Optimization Applications to Machine Learning and Engineering Replaces 4134 in Group A for ADS. Replaces either 4133 or 4134 for OR. Breadth course for all other concentrations. Cifuentes, Diego ISYE 3133

This course provides an overview of the foundations and algorithms for solving nonlinear continuous optimization problems. The methods discussed in this course are used areas such as data science, engineering, robotics, statistics, and economics. Importantly, they are keystones in several machine learning problems. The course is divided into three modules: unconstrained optimization, constrained optimization, and convex optimization. Each module covers foundational topics and practical algorithms.
ISYE 4803 PHS 32189 Public Health Systems Breadth for all Serban, Nicoleta and Keskinocak, Pinar ISYE 3030 This course will provide an overview of the various applications of systems thinking and quantitative decision-making approaches in health systems and public health, exploring their potential positive impact in better evaluating trade-offs and improving the overall health and well-being of individuals and populations and efficiency and effectiveness of health systems.
ISYE 4803 SHA 29924 Facility Layout and Warehousing Depth for SCE; breadth for Q&S, OR, E&FS, ADS. Sharp, Gunter ISYE 3104 (with concurrency) The course covers:  1) traditional topics: activity relationships, from-to-charts, traditional layout planning;   2) evaluation methods: multi-criterion analysis, economic analysis for capital-intensive projects;  3) storage systems:  low-tech, small parts, high-density, satellite vehicle;  4) material flow systems: fork-lift, AGV, conveyor, overhead monorail;  5) DC operations;  6) Cases: Avon, Coca-Cola, AutoZone.
ISYE 4803 ZIA 31446 Online Learning and Decision Making Depth for Q&S, Analytics, General; Breadth for OR, SCE, and E&FS Ziani, Juba ISYE 3133 and Senior standing At the heart of most machine learning applications today – like advertisement placement, movie recommendation, and node prediction in evolving networks – is an optimization engine trying to provide the best decision with the information observed thus far in time, i.e. the problem of online learning. One must make online, real-time decisions and continuously improve the performance with the arrival of data and feedback from previous decisions. The course aims to provide a foundation for the development of such online methods and for their analysis.

Approved Special Topics Courses for Fall 2022

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 3803 A 93570 Proj Eval People/Planet/Profit Breadth for all Zhou, Chen; Thomas, Valerie; and Lowe, Jonathan Senior standing, ISYE 3025 (with concurrency) and ISYE 3030 Human needs include physiological needs, social needs, and economic needs. These needs are related to social, environmental, and economic needs, aka People, Planet, and Profit, commonly referred to as triple bottom line (3BL). Traditionally, project evaluations have been based on financial terms only, which is part of the economic evaluation. However, more and more people and firms are realizing that such evaluations are insufficient. In this course, we will introduce the concepts of the triple bottom line, the project evaluations associated with it, and apply the concepts to a specific project designed to satisfy those needs.
ISYE 4801 GLV 86196 Product Development Design to Value Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Lopez Velarde, Guillermo Junior or senior standing The objective of this course is to introduce the Design-to-Value (DTV) approach and its main processes. DTV is a methodology aimed at improving product portfolio margin through design optimization, and is comprised of three main lenses: consumer, design and supply insights. The focus will be to internalize best in class practices across these three lenses, through a combination of theory and hands on practice modules. Real physical products will be used to support both, training during class and a team project. Special emphasis will be placed on how well each team incorporates DTV best practices into the project’s solution and how well the team presents the findings throughout the course. In addition to learning the DTV methodology, this course should also improve other skills such as teamwork, presentation skills, both oral and written, critical thinking and problem solving.
ISYE 4801 TRE 87250 Business Essentials for IE Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Trebuchon, Maurice Junior or senior standing This course will meet weekly for 50 minutes on Wednesdays at 11:00am.  The course will address business topics that complement and extend the value of the ISyE curriculum, so as to better prepare students to pragmatically apply what they have learned in the business setting.  Topics to be addressed include business models & competitive differentiation, process & activity modeling, financial measurement, pragmatic solution design, organizational designs & dynamics, and organizational change management.  This will be accomplished via a combination of class lectures, in class case examples, guest speakers and one or more group projects.   There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 GEB 86132 Reliability Engineering Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Gebraeel, Nagi ISYE 3030(2028) and senior standing This course covers major topics in Reliability Engineering. Students learn about different failure models used to characterize component failures (statistical and physical), and how these models can be extended and used to evaluate system-level reliability. Students will also gain in-depth knowledge about the interplay between reliability goals and product design, and the effect reliability has on overall life-cycle costs and system effectiveness. Availability and Maintainability concepts will also be discussed, especially, popular maintenance concepts like preventive and condition-based maintenance. Finally, students will learn about analysis of failure data including concepts such as censoring, accelerated life tests, and reliability growth testing.
ISYE 4803 JOS 91858 Design of Experiments Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Joseph, Roshan ISYE 3039 OR ISYE 4031

In this course you will learn about efficient methods for obtaining data through experiments, which can be used for understanding and developing causal relationships between inputs and outputs of a system. Design of experiments (DOE) is a plan for doing such experiments. The aim of DOE is to maximize the information in the data with minimum cost. DOE is an essential tool for quality improvement and product/process optimization. The course will also deal with the design and analysis of computationally expensive simulations, also known as computer experiments, and how it can be integrated with physical experiments. The course will be taught using the statistical software R.
ISYE 4803 MCG 86985 Systems Design for IE's Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 4803 MCG. McGinnis, Leon ISYE 3232 and ISYE 3133(3833) and senior standing This course will present an engineering approach to the design of discrete event logistics systems, or DELS. Examples of DELS include warehouses, discrete parts manufacturing, logistics systems, and health care delivery systems.  While the course will engage analysis tools, like queueing theory, simulation, and optimization, it also will engage decision theory and design theory. 
ISYE 4803 MUT 87255 Online Learning and Decision Making

Depth for Q&S, Analytics, General; Breadth for OR, SCE, and E&FS

 Muthukumar, Vidya ISYE 3030(2028) and ISYE 3133(3833) and senior standing

At the heart of most machine learning applications today – like advertisement placement, movie recommendation, and node prediction in evolving networks – is an optimization engine trying to provide the best decision with the information observed thus far in time, i.e. the problem of online learning. One must make online, real-time decisions and continuously improve the performance with the arrival of data and feedback from previous decisions. The course aims to provide a foundation for the development of such online methods and for their analysis.
ISYE 4803 REV 82102 Advanced Manufacturing Depth for SCE and General, breadth for all others. Reveliotis, Spyros ISYE 3104 and senior standing Provides an in-depth modeling and analysis of the workflow dynamics that shape the operation and the performance of contemporary production systems.

Approved Special Topics Courses for Spring 2022

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 4801 CAR 29417 ISyE Career Development Course Free elective ONLY. Nazzal, Dima and Johnson, Ronald BSIE Major This one credit hour course prepares undergraduate Industrial Engineering students to start their career. It is an interactive-style class, teaching skills and strategies for early career professional development
ISYE 4801 MUL 30765 Work Measurement & Forensics Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Mulaik, Stephen ISYE 3030(2028), ISYE 3232, CS 4400 This course introduces students to labor standard, motion analysis, time study and work transaction.
ISYE 4801 TRE 26784 Preparing for Consulting Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Trebuchon, Maurice Jr or Sr standing One fifty-minute session held weekly on Fridays at 11 am. The course will provide an overview of the consulting market, consulting specialties, hot market skill areas, and typical consulting approaches and tools, via a combination of class lecture, case study exercises, and guest speaker presentations. Several times during the semester students will be expected to prepare and submit one page memorandums based on guest speaker learnings. In addition, there will be a case study report to be submitted at semester conclusion. There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 CIF 32604 Nonlinear Optimization Replaces 4134 in Group A for ADS. Replaces either 4133 or 4134 for OR. Breadth course for all other concentrations. Cifuentes, Diego ISYE 3133

This course provides an overview of the foundations and algorithms for solving nonlinear continuous optimization problems. The methods discussed in this course are used areas such as data science, engineering, robotics, statistics, and economics. Importantly, they are keystones in several machine learning problems. The course is divided into three modules: unconstrained optimization, constrained optimization, and convex optimization. Each module covers foundational topics and practical algorithms.
ISYE 4803 PAN 32595 Foundations of Modern Data Science Group B course for ADS. Breadth for all other concentrations. Pananjady, Ashwin B or better in: ISYE 3030 and ISYE 3133 and (MATH 2106 or CS 3510 or CS 4510 or CS 1332) or by instructor permission. Course details are found here: https://sites.gatech.edu/ashwin-pananjady/isye-4803/
ISYE 4803 SHA 30565 Facility Layout and Warehousing Depth for SCE; breadth for Q&S, OR, E&FS, ADS. Sharp, Gunter ISYE 3104 (with concurrency) The course covers:  1) traditional topics: activity relationships, from-to-charts, traditional layout planning;   2) evaluation methods: multi-criterion analysis, economic analysis for capital-intensive projects;  3) storage systems:  low-tech, small parts, high-density, satellite vehicle;  4) material flow systems: fork-lift, AGV, conveyor, overhead monorail;  5) DC operations;  6) Cases: Avon, Coca-Cola, AutoZone.

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Fall 2021

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 4801 GLV 86897 Product Development Design to Value Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Lopez Velarde, Guillermo Junior or senior standing The objective of this course is to introduce the Design-to-Value (DTV) approach and its main processes. DTV is a methodology aimed at improving product portfolio margin through design optimization, and is comprised of three main lenses: consumer, design and supply insights. The focus will be to internalize best in class practices across these three lenses, through a combination of theory and hands on practice modules. Real physical products will be used to support both, training during class and a team project. Special emphasis will be placed on how well each team incorporates DTV best practices into the project’s solution and how well the team presents the findings throughout the course. In addition to learning the DTV methodology, this course should also improve other skills such as teamwork, presentation skills, both oral and written, critical thinking and problem solving.
ISYE 4801 TRE 88150 Business Essentials for IE Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Trebuchon, Maurice Junior or senior standing This course will meet weekly for 50 minutes on Wednesdays at 11:00am.  The course will address business topics that complement and extend the value of the ISyE curriculum, so as to better prepare students to pragmatically apply what they have learned in the business setting.  Topics to be addressed include business models & competitive differentiation, process & activity modeling, financial measurement, pragmatic solution design, organizational designs & dynamics, and organizational change management.  This will be accomplished via a combination of class lectures, in class case examples, guest speakers and one or more group projects.   There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 GEB 86820 Reliability Engineering Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Gebraeel, Nagi ISYE 3030(2028) and senior standing This course covers major topics in Reliability Engineering. Students learn about different failure models used to characterize component failures (statistical and physical), and how these models can be extended and used to evaluate system-level reliability. Students will also gain in-depth knowledge about the interplay between reliability goals and product design, and the effect reliability has on overall life-cycle costs and system effectiveness. Availability and Maintainability concepts will also be discussed, especially, popular maintenance concepts like preventive and condition-based maintenance. Finally, students will learn about analysis of failure data including concepts such as censoring, accelerated life tests, and reliability growth testing.
ISYE 4803 JOS 94131 Design of Experiments Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Joseph, Roshan ISYE 3039 OR ISYE 4031

In this course you will learn about efficient methods for obtaining data through experiments, which can be used for understanding and developing causal relationships between inputs and outputs of a system. Design of experiments (DOE) is a plan for doing such experiments. The aim of DOE is to maximize the information in the data with minimum cost. DOE is an essential tool for quality improvement and product/process optimization. The course will also deal with the design and analysis of computationally expensive simulations, also known as computer experiments, and how it can be integrated with physical experiments. The course will be taught using the statistical software R.
ISYE 4803 MCG 87847 Systems Design for IE's Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 4803 MCG. McGinnis, Leon ISYE 3232 and ISYE 3133(3833) and senior standing This course will present an engineering approach to the design of discrete event logistics systems, or DELS. Examples of DELS include warehouses, discrete parts manufacturing, logistics systems, and health care delivery systems.  While the course will engage analysis tools, like queueing theory, simulation, and optimization, it also will engage decision theory and design theory. 
ISYE 4803 GUP 88155 Online Learning and Decision Making

Depth for Q&S, Analytics, General; Breadth for OR, SCE, and E&FS

 Gupta, Swati ISYE 3030(2028) and ISYE 3133(3833) and senior standing

At the heart of most machine learning applications today – like advertisement placement, movie recommendation, and node prediction in evolving networks – is an optimization engine trying to provide the best decision with the information observed thus far in time, i.e. the problem of online learning. One must make online, real-time decisions and continuously improve the performance with the arrival of data and feedback from previous decisions. The course aims to provide a foundation for the development of such online methods and for their analysis.
ISYE 4803 PHS 94856 Public Health Systems

Breadth for all concentrations (only for this Fall 2021 semester)

 Keskinocak, Pinar and Serban, Nicoleta Permit required (https://forms.isye.gatech.edu/phsc) and a course in Statistics This course will provide an overview of the various applications of systems thinking and quantitative decision-making approaches in health systems and public health, exploring their potential positive impact in better evaluating trade-offs and improving the overall health and well-being of individuals and populations and efficiency and effectiveness of health systems.
ISYE 4803 REV 82293 Advanced Manufacturing Depth for SCE and General, breadth for all others. Reveliotis, Spyros ISYE 3104 and senior standing Provides an in-depth modeling and analysis of the workflow dynamics that shape the operation and the performance of contemporary production systems.

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Spring 2021

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 3106 (was ISYE 3803) 34077 or 34078 Cornerstone Design Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for 4803 LAL and 3803 and 3106. Course cannot be taken with or after ISYE 4106. Tokol-Goldsman, Gamze ISYE 3030 or ISYE 3133

This course introduces students to problems in Industrial Engineering through exercises and case studies from past ISyE Senior Design projects. Emphasis is on problem scoping, descriptive modeling, data gathering processes, and basic concepts and principles in IE.

*** This course was previously numbered as ISYE 3803 NAZ ***
ISYE 4801 MUL 34034 Work Measurement & Forensics Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Mulaik, Stephen ISYE 3030(2028), ISYE 3232, CS 4400 This course introduces students to labor standard, motion analysis, time study and work transaction.
ISYE 4801 SMI 32172 ISyE Career Development Course Free elective. Smith, Rachael BSIE Major

This one credit hour course prepares undergraduate Industrial Engineering students to start their career. It is an interactive-style class, teaching skills and strategies for early career professional development.
ISYE 4801 TRE 28150 Preparing for Consulting Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Trebuchon, Maurice Jr or Sr standing One fifty-minute session held weekly on Fridays at 11:15 am. The course will provide an overview of the consulting market, consulting specialties, hot market skill areas, and typical consulting approaches and tools, via a combination of class lecture, case study exercises, and guest speaker presentations. Several times during the semester students will be expected to prepare and submit one page memorandums based on guest speaker learnings. In addition, there will be a case study report to be submitted at semester conclusion. There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 SHA 33802 Facility Layout and Warehousing Depth for SCE; breadth for Q&S, OR, E&FS, ADS. Sharp, Gunter ISYE 3104 (with concurrency) The course covers:  1) traditional topics: activity relationships, from-to-charts, traditional layout planning;   2) evaluation methods: multi-criterion analysis, economic analysis for capital-intensive projects;  3) storage systems:  low-tech, small parts, high-density, satellite vehicle;  4) material flow systems: fork-lift, AGV, conveyor, overhead monorail;  5) DC operations;  6) Cases: Avon, Coca-Cola, AutoZone.

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Fall 2020

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 4801 ROM Cancelled ISyE Undergraduate Seminar Free elective. Romeijn, Edwin none The objective of this course is for the students to explore alternative BSIE career paths and to learn current practices in the IE profession. A one-hour session is held each week. During the sessions, visiting practitioners present their background, career progression, description of their present work, and a typical problem that they are currently working on or solving. The students submit a written one page memorandum by the following Friday, which will be graded and returned to them within one week. This is a 1-credit free elective course.
ISYE 3803 A or B 89115 or 91764 Cornerstone Modeling and Design Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 3803 A/B.. Nazzal, Dima or Tokol-Goldsman, Gamze ISYE 2027 This course introduces students to problems in Industrial Engineering through exercises and case studies from past ISyE Senior Design projects. Emphasis is on problem scoping, descriptive modeling, data gathering processes, and basic concepts and principles in IE.
ISYE 4801 GLV Cancelled Product Development Design to Value Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Lopez Velarde, Guillermo Junior or senior standing The objective of this course is to introduce the Design-to-Value (DTV) approach and its main processes. DTV is a methodology aimed at improving product portfolio margin through design optimization, and is comprised of three main lenses: consumer, design and supply insights. The focus will be to internalize best in class practices across these three lenses, through a combination of theory and hands on practice modules. Real physical products will be used to support both, training during class and a team project. Special emphasis will be placed on how well each team incorporates DTV best practices into the project’s solution and how well the team presents the findings throughout the course. In addition to learning the DTV methodology, this course should also improve other skills such as teamwork, presentation skills, both oral and written, critical thinking and problem solving.
ISYE 4801 SMI 92912 ISyE Career Development Free Elective Smith, Rachael None This one credit hour course prepares undergraduate Industrial Engineering students to start their career. It is an interactive-style class, teaching skills and strategies for early career professional development.
ISYE 4801 TRE 88533 Business Essentials for IE Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Trebuchon, Maurice Junior or senior standing This course will meet weekly for 50 minutes on Wednesday's at 11:15am.  The course will address business topics that complement and extend the value of the ISyE curriculum, so as to better prepare students to pragmatically apply what they have learned in the business setting.  Topics to be addressed include business models & competitive differentiation, process & activity modeling, financial measurement, pragmatic solution design, organizational designs & dynamics, and organizational change management.  This will be accomplished via a combination of class lectures, in class case examples, guest speakers and one or more group projects.   There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 GEB 87131 Reliability Engineering Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Gebraeel, Nagi ISYE 3030(2028) and senior standing This course covers major topics in Reliability Engineering. Students learn about different failure models used to characterize component failures (statistical and physical), and how these models can be extended and used to evaluate system-level reliability. Students will also gain in-depth knowledge about the interplay between reliability goals and product design, and the effect reliability has on overall life-cycle costs and system effectiveness. Availability and Maintainability concepts will also be discussed, especially, popular maintenance concepts like preventive and condition-based maintenance. Finally, students will learn about analysis of failure data including concepts such as censoring, accelerated life tests, and reliability growth testing.
ISYE 4803 GUP 88539 Online Learning and Decision Making Depth for Q&S, Analytics, General; Breadth for OR, SCE, and E&FS Gupta, Swati ISYE 3030(2028) and ISYE 3133(3833) and senior standing At the heart of most machine learning applications today – like advertisement placement, movie recommendation, and node prediction in evolving networks – is an optimization engine trying to provide the best decision with the information observed thus far in time, i.e. the problem of online learning. One must make online, real-time decisions and continuously improve the performance with the arrival of data and feedback from previous decisions. The course aims to provide a foundation for the development of such online methods and for their analysis.
ISYE 4803 MCG 88216 Systems Design for IE's Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 4803 MCG. McGinnis, Leon ISYE 3232 and ISYE 3133(3833) and senior standing This course will present an engineering approach to the design of discrete event logistics systems, or DELS. Examples of DELS include warehouses, discrete parts manufacturing, logistics systems, and health care delivery systems.  While the course will engage analysis tools, like queueing theory, simulation, and optimization, it also will engage decision theory and design theory. 
ISYE 4803 REV 82406 Advanced Manufacturing Depth for SCE and General, breadth for all others. Reveliotis, Spyros ISYE 3104 and senior standing Provides an in-depth modeling and analysis of the workflow dynamics that shape the operation and the performance of contemporary production systems.

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Spring 2020

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 3803 NAZ 38620 Cornerstone Modeling and Design Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 3803 NAZ. Nazzal, Dima ISYE 2027 This course introduces students to problems in Industrial Engineering through exercises and case studies from past ISyE Senior Design projects. Emphasis is on problem scoping, descriptive modeling, data gathering processes, and basic concepts and principles in IE.
ISYE 4801 MUL 36996 Work Measurement & Forensics Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Mulaik, Stephen ISYE 3030(2028), ISYE 3232, CS 4400 This course introduces students to labor standard, motion analysis, time study and work transaction.
ISYE 4801 NAZ 40857 ISyE Career Development Course Free elective. Nazzal, Dima Jr or Sr standing

This one credit hour course prepares undergraduate Industrial Engineering students to start their career. It is an interactive-style class, teaching skills and strategies for early career professional development.
ISYE 4801 TRE 40554 Preparing for Consulting Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Trebuchon, Maurice Jr or Sr standing One fifty-minute session held weekly on Fridays at 11:15 am. The course will provide an overview of the consulting market, consulting specialties, hot market skill areas, and typical consulting approaches and tools, via a combination of class lecture, case study exercises, and guest speaker presentations. Several times during the semester students will be expected to prepare and submit one page memorandums based on guest speaker learnings. In addition, there will be a case study report to be submitted at semester conclusion. There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 SHA 34552 Facility Layout and Warehousing Depth for SCE; breadth for Q&S, OR, E&FS, ADS. Sharp, Gunter ISYE 3104 (with concurrency) The course covers:  1) traditional topics: activity relationships, from-to-charts, traditional layout planning;   2) evaluation methods: multi-criterion analysis, economic analysis for capital-intensive projects;  3) storage systems:  low-tech, small parts, high-density, satellite vehicle;  4) material flow systems: fork-lift, AGV, conveyor, overhead monorail;  5) DC operations;  6) Cases: Avon, Coca-Cola, AutoZone.

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Fall 2019

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 2801 ROM 90260 ISyE Undergraduate Seminar Free elective. Romeijn, Edwin none The objective of this course is for the students to explore alternative BSIE career paths and to learn current practices in the IE profession. A one-hour session is held each week. During the sessions, visiting practitioners present their background, career progression, description of their present work, and a typical problem that they are currently working on or solving. The students submit a written one page memorandum by the following Friday, which will be graded and returned to them within one week. This is a 1-credit free elective course.
ISYE 3803 NAZ 90300 Cornerstone Modeling and Design Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 3803 NAZ. Nazzal, Dima ISYE 2027 This course introduces students to problems in Industrial Engineering through exercises and case studies from past ISyE Senior Design projects. Emphasis is on problem scoping, descriptive modeling, data gathering processes, and basic concepts and principles in IE.
ISYE 4801 GLV 87780 Product Development Design to Value Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Lopez Velarde, Guillermo Junior or senior standing The objective of this course is to introduce the Design-to-Value (DTV) approach and its main processes. DTV is a methodology aimed at improving product portfolio margin through design optimization, and is comprised of three main lenses: consumer, design and supply insights. The focus will be to internalize best in class practices across these three lenses, through a combination of theory and hands on practice modules. Real physical products will be used to support both, training during class and a team project. Special emphasis will be placed on how well each team incorporates DTV best practices into the project’s solution and how well the team presents the findings throughout the course. In addition to learning the DTV methodology, this course should also improve other skills such as teamwork, presentation skills, both oral and written, critical thinking and problem solving.
ISYE 4801 TRE 89431 Business Essentials for IE Free elective (or Group 2 Engineering Elective) Trebuchon, Maurice Junior or senior standing This course will meet weekly for 50 minutes on Wednesday's at 11:15am.  The course will address business topics that complement and extend the value of the ISyE curriculum, so as to better prepare students to pragmatically apply what they have learned in the business setting.  Topics to be addressed include business models & competitive differentiation, process & activity modeling, financial measurement, pragmatic solution design, organizational designs & dynamics, and organizational change management.  This will be accomplished via a combination of class lectures, in class case examples, guest speakers and one or more group projects.   There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 GEB 87671 Reliability Engineering Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Gebraeel, Nagi ISYE 3030(2028) and senior standing This course covers major topics in Reliability Engineering. Students learn about different failure models used to characterize component failures (statistical and physical), and how these models can be extended and used to evaluate system-level reliability. Students will also gain in-depth knowledge about the interplay between reliability goals and product design, and the effect reliability has on overall life-cycle costs and system effectiveness. Availability and Maintainability concepts will also be discussed, especially, popular maintenance concepts like preventive and condition-based maintenance. Finally, students will learn about analysis of failure data including concepts such as censoring, accelerated life tests, and reliability growth testing.
ISYE 4803 GUP 89439 Online Learning and Decision Making Depth for Q&S, Analytics, General; Breadth for OR, SCE, and E&FS Gupta, Swati ISYE 3030(2028) and ISYE 3133(3833) and senior standing At the heart of most machine learning applications today – like advertisement placement, movie recommendation, and node prediction in evolving networks – is an optimization engine trying to provide the best decision with the information observed thus far in time, i.e. the problem of online learning. One must make online, real-time decisions and continuously improve the performance with the arrival of data and feedback from previous decisions. The course aims to provide a foundation for the development of such online methods and for their analysis.
ISYE 4803 MCG 89010 Systems Design for IE's Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 4803 MCG. McGinnis, Leon ISYE 3232 and ISYE 3133(3833) and senior standing This course will present an engineering approach to the design of discrete event logistics systems, or DELS. Examples of DELS include warehouses, discrete parts manufacturing, logistics systems, and health care delivery systems.  While the course will engage analysis tools, like queueing theory, simulation, and optimization, it also will engage decision theory and design theory. 
ISYE 4803 REV 82533 Advanced Manufacturing Depth for SCE and General, breadth for all others. Reveliotis, Spyros ISYE 3104 and senior standing Provides an in-depth modeling and analysis of the workflow dynamics that shape the operation and the performance of contemporary production systems.

ISYE 4803 VAN or 

ISYE 4134 A

90221

92286

 Constraint Programming Depth for OR, Analytics, and General; Breadth for Q&S, SCE, and E&FS. Van Hentenryck, Pascal ISYE 3133(3833) and CS 2316

This class is an introduction to constraint programming, its modeling language, its computational model, and its applications in resource allocation, routing, scheduling, and transportation.

*** This class has been re-numbered to ISYE 4134, but it is still the same class ***

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Spring 2019

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 3803 NAZ 31043 Cornerstone Modeling and Design Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 3803 NAZ. Nazzal, Dima ISYE 2027 This course introduces students to problems in Industrial Engineering through exercises and case studies from past ISyE Senior Design projects. Emphasis is on problem scoping, descriptive modeling, data gathering processes, and basic concepts and principles in IE.
ISYE 4801 MUL 28674 Work Measurement & Forensics Free elective.   ISYE 2028, ISYE 3232, CS 4400 This course introduces students to labor standard, motion analysis, time study and work transaction.
ISYE 4803 ALE 21522 Advanced Simulation Depth for OR and General; breadth for SCE, EFS, and Q&S. Alexopoulos, Christos ISYE 3044 Organization of discrete-event simulation languages; Modeling with Simio, a state-of-the art simulation package; Statistical aspects of simulation studies including input data analysis, generation of realizations from statistical distributions, output data analysis, and simulation-based optimization.
ISYE 4803 SHA 25742 Facility Layout and Warehousing Depth for SCE; breadth for Q&S, OR, E&FS. Sharp, Gunter ISYE 3104 (with concurrency) The course covers:  1) traditional topics: activity relationships, from-to-charts, traditional layout planning;   2) evaluation methods: multi-criterion analysis, economic analysis for capital-intensive projects;  3) storage systems:  low-tech, small parts, high-density, satellite vehicle;  4) material flow systems: fork-lift, AGV, conveyor, overhead monorail;  5) DC operations;  6) Cases: Avon, Coca-Cola, AutoZone.

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Fall 2018

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 2801 A 92140 ISyE Undergraduate Seminar Free elective. Romeijn, Edwin none The objective of this course is for the students to explore alternative BSIE career paths and to learn current practices in the IE profession. A one-hour session is held each week. During the sessions, visiting practitioners present their background, career progression, description of their present work, and a typical problem that they are currently working on or solving. The students submit a written one page memorandum by the following Friday, which will be graded and returned to them within one week. This is a 1-credit free elective course.
ISYE 3803 NAZ 92188 Cornerstone Modeling and Design Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 3803 NAZ. Nazzal, Dima ISYE 2027 This course introduces students to problems in Industrial Engineering through exercises and case studies from past ISyE Senior Design projects. Emphasis is on problem scoping, descriptive modeling, data gathering processes, and basic concepts and principles in IE.
ISYE 4801 GLV 88630 Product Development Design to Value Free elective. Lopez Velarde, Guillermo Junior or senior standing The objective of this course is to introduce the Design-to-Value (DTV) approach and its main processes. DTV is a methodology aimed at improving product portfolio margin through design optimization, and is comprised of three main lenses: consumer, design and supply insights. The focus will be to internalize best in class practices across these three lenses, through a combination of theory and hands on practice modules. Real physical products will be used to support both, training during class and a team project. Special emphasis will be placed on how well each team incorporates DTV best practices into the project’s solution and how well the team presents the findings throughout the course. In addition to learning the DTV methodology, this course should also improve other skills such as teamwork, presentation skills, both oral and written, critical thinking and problem solving.
ISYE 4801 TRE 90967 Business Essentials for IE Free elective. Trebuchon, Maurice Junior or senior standing This course will meet weekly for 50 minutes on Friday’s at 11:15am.  The course will address business topics that complement and extend the value of the ISyE curriculum, so as to better prepare students to pragmatically apply what they have learned in the business setting.  Topics to be addressed include business models & competitive differentiation, process & activity modeling, financial measurement, pragmatic solution design, organizational designs & dynamics, and organizational change management.  This will be accomplished via a combination of class lectures, in class case examples, guest speakers and one or more group projects.   There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 GUP 90975 Online Learning and Decision Making Depth for Q&S, Analytics(pilot), General; Breadth for OR, SCE, and E&FS Gupta, Swati ISYE 2028 and ISYE 3133(3833) At the heart of most machine learning applications today – like advertisement placement, movie recommendation, and node prediction in evolving networks – is an optimization engine trying to provide the best decision with the information observed thus far in time, i.e. the problem of online learning. One must make online, real-time decisions and continuously improve the performance with the arrival of data and feedback from previous decisions. The course aims to provide a foundation for the development of such online methods and for their analysis.
ISYE 4803 MCG 90410 Systems Design for IE's Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 4803 MCG. McGinnis, Leon ISYE 3232 and ISYE 3133(3833) This course will present an engineering approach to the design of discrete event logistics systems, or DELS. Examples of DELS include warehouses, discrete parts manufacturing, logistics systems, and health care delivery systems.  While the course will engage analysis tools, like queueing theory, simulation, and optimization, it also will engage decision theory and design theory. 
ISYE 4803 GEB 88483 Reliability Engineering Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Gebraeel, Nagi ISYE 2028 and senior standing This course covers major topics in Reliability Engineering. Students learn about different failure models used to characterize component failures (statistical and physical), and how these models can be extended and used to evaluate system-level reliability. Students will also gain in-depth knowledge about the interplay between reliability goals and product design, and the effect reliability has on overall life-cycle costs and system effectiveness. Availability and Maintainability concepts will also be discussed, especially, popular maintenance concepts like preventive and condition-based maintenance. Finally, students will learn about analysis of failure data including concepts such as censoring, accelerated life tests, and reliability growth testing.
ISYE 4803 REV 82741 Advanced Manufacturing Depth for SCE and General, breadth for all others. Reveliotis, Spyros ISYE 3104 Provides an in-depth modeling and analysis of the workflow dynamics that shape the operation and the performance of contemporary production systems.

ISYE 4803 THO

 

ISYE 4501 THO

86240

92057

 Energy and Environmental Analysis Breadth for Q&S, SCE, E&FS, OR. Thomas, Valerie Junior or senior standing in ISyE

This course explores policies and technologies affecting the production and use of energy, focusing in particular on innovative and sustainable energy options.

*** This class has been re-numbered to ISYE 4501, but it is still the same class that will satisfy one of your Breadth requirements ***
ISYE 4803 VAN 92095 Constraint Programming Depth for OR and General; Breadth for Q&S, Analytics(pilot), SCE, and E&FS. Van Hentenryck, Pascal ISYE 3133(3833); be comfortable with programming This class is an introduction to constraint programming, its modeling language, its computational model, and its applications in resource allocation, routing, scheduling, and transportation.
ISYE 4803 ZHO 90968 Intro to Machine Learning Depth for Q&S, Analytics(pilot), General; Breadth for OR, SCE, and E&FS; Credit not allowed for both CS 4641 and ISYE 4803 ZHO. Zhao, Tuo ISYE 2028 and ISYE 3133(3833) and CS 2316 (prerequisites); ISYE 4031 (with concurrency) This course focuses on computational/theoretical and practical aspects of machine learning. It will cover several fundamental techniques and will be very hands-on using Python/Tensorflow/C.

 

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Spring 2018

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 4801 MUL 30226 Work Measurement & Forensics Free elective.   ISYE 2028, ISYE 3232, CS 4400 This course introduces students to labor standard, motion analysis, time study and work transaction.
ISYE 4801 TRE 27550 Preparing for Consulting Free elective. Trebuchon, Maurice Junior or senior standing One fifty-minute session held weekly on Fridays at 11:05 am. The course will provide an overview of the consulting market, consulting specialties, hot market skill areas, and typical consulting approaches and tools, via a combination of class lecture, case study exercises, and guest speaker presentations. Several times during the semester students will be expected to prepare and submit one page memorandums based on guest speaker learnings. In addition, there will be a case study report to be submitted at semester conclusion. There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 ALE 21659 Advanced Simulation Depth for OR and General; breadth for SCE, EFS, and Q&S. Alexopoulos, Christos ISYE 3044 Organization of discrete-event simulation languages; Modeling with Simio, a state-of-the art simulation package; Statistical aspects of simulation studies including input data analysis, generation of realizations from statistical distributions, output data analysis, and simulation-based optimization.
ISYE 4803 LAL 25755 Supply Chain Project Breadth for Q&S, SCE, EFS, OR. Laliberte, Andrea Junior or senior standing In this course you will work in teams on a typical supply chain/industrial engineering project. You will learn information gathering, problem definition, application of methods, professionalism, teamwork, oral and written communication. Special emphasis will be placed on incorporating the business objectives into the problem solving, how to work as a team and how to present results to different audiences.
ISYE 4803 LUJ 25628 Business Analytics Depth for Q&S, breadth for SCE, E&FS, OR. Lu, J.C. CS 4400 (prerequisite), ISYE 4031 (with concurrency) Increasingly, decision-makers rely on intelligent technology to analyze data systematically and timely for meeting inquiry and solution deadlines and improving decision quality. This course will examine how data mining procedures can be used to improve decision analytics. The course will build on real-life examples and teach students how to formulate decision-making problems into business analytics queries.  Data analysis software will be integrated into database query language and visualization tools for exploring intelligence reside in the data.  Hands-on team projects will be required.
ISYE 4803 SHA 26505 Facility Layout and Warehousing Depth for SCE; breadth for Q&S, OR, E&FS. Sharp, Gunter ISYE 3104 (with concurrency) The course covers:  1) traditional topics: activity relationships, from-to-charts, traditional layout planning;   2) evaluation methods: multi-criterion analysis, economic analysis for capital-intensive projects;  3) storage systems:  low-tech, small parts, high-density, satellite vehicle;  4) material flow systems: fork-lift, AGV, conveyor, overhead monorail;  5) DC operations;  6) Cases: Avon, Coca-Cola, AutoZone.

 

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Fall 2017

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 2801 A 87046 Professional Practice of Industrial Engineering Free elective. Laliberte, Andrea none The objective of this course is for the students to explore alternative BSIE career paths and to learn current practices in the IE profession. A one-hour session is held each week. During the sessions, visiting practitioners present their background, career progression, description of their present work, and a typical problem that they are currently working on or solving. The students submit a written one page memorandum by the following Friday, which will be graded and returned to them within one week. This is a 1-credit free elective course.
ISYE 4801 A 89872 Design to Value Free elective. Lopez Velarde, Guillermo Junior or senior standing. The objective of this course is to introduce the Design-to-Value (DTV) approach and its main processes. DTV is a methodology aimed at improving product portfolio margin through design optimization, and is comprised of three main lenses: consumer, design and supply insights. The focus will be to internalize best in class practices across these three lenses, through a combination of theory and hands on practice modules. Real physical products will be used to support both, training during class and a team project. Special emphasis will be placed on how well each team incorporates DTV best practices into the project’s solution and how well the team presents the findings throughout the course. In addition to learning the DTV methodology, this course should also improve other skills such as teamwork, presentation skills, both oral and written, critical thinking and problem solving.
ISYE 4803 MCG 92169 Systems Design for IE's Breadth for all except General; Credit not allowed for both 4803 LAL and 4803 MCG. McGinnis, Leon ISYE 3232 and ISYE 3133(3833) This course will present an engineering approach to the design of discrete event logistics systems, or DELS. Examples of DELS include warehouses, discrete parts manufacturing, logistics systems, and health care delivery systems.  While the course will engage analysis tools, like queueing theory, simulation, and optimization, it also will engage decision theory and design theory. 
ISYE 4803 NM2 89875 Linear & Convex Optimization Depth for OR and General, breadth for all others. Nemirovski, Arkadi ISYE 3133 or 3833 This course can be used as an advanced optimization elective.
ISYE 4803 REV 83097 Advanced Manufacturing Depth for SCE and General, breadth for all others. Reveliotis, Spyros ISYE 3104 Provides an in-depth modeling and analysis of the workflow dynamics that shape the operation and the performance of contemporary production systems.
ISYE 4803 THO 86937 Energy and Environmental Analysis Breadth for Q&S, SCE, E&FS, OR. Thomas, Valerie junior or senior standing in ISyE This course explores policies and technologies affecting the production and use of energy, focusing in particular on innovative and sustainable energy options.
ISYE 4803 NAG 89601 Reliability Engineering Depth for Q&S; breadth for SCE, OR, E&FS. Gebraeel, Nagi ISYE 2028 and senior standing This course covers major topics in Reliability Engineering. Students learn about different failure models used to characterize component failures (statistical and physical), and how these models can be extended and used to evaluate system-level reliability. Students will also gain in-depth knowledge about the interplay between reliability goals and product design, and the effect reliability has on overall life-cycle costs and system effectiveness. Availability and Maintainability concepts will also be discussed, especially, popular maintenance concepts like preventive and condition-based maintenance. Finally, students will learn about analysis of failure data including concepts such as censoring, accelerated life tests, and reliability growth testing.
ISYE 4803 WHS 89462 Additive Manufacturing - A System's Perspective Breadth for Q&S, SCE, E&FS, and OR; can replace ISYE 3039 or 4301 for General. Wang, Hsu-Pin Senior standing This course is intended to fill a major void in additive manufacturing education. All additive manufacturing courses so far are offered to address materials and process level issues. While materials and processes are important and will be discussed in this course, system-level challenges are key yet seldom addressed. This course will provide a forum for the students and the instructor (and guest lecturers) to discuss critical topics such as qualifications & certifications, regulation pathways for medical applications, economic modeling, supply chain management, and statistical process control, in order to achieve system wide impact and benefits. The students will gain a clear understanding of additive manufacturing system-level challenges and implementation strategy.

 

Approved Special Topics Courses for Spring 2017

Course CRN Title Concentration Instructor Prerequisites Description
ISYE 4801 MUL 30896 Work Measurement & Forensics Free elective.   ISYE 2028, ISYE 3232, CS 4400 This course introduces students to labor standard, motion analysis, time study and work transaction.
ISYE 4801 TRE 28168 Preparing for Consulting Free elective. Trebuchon, Maurice Junior or senior standing One fifty-minute session held weekly on Fridays at 11:05 am. The course will provide an overview of the consulting market, consulting specialties, hot market skill areas, and typical consulting approaches and tools, via a combination of class lecture, case study exercises, and guest speaker presentations. Several times during the semester students will be expected to prepare and submit one page memorandums based on guest speaker learnings. In addition, there will be a case study report to be submitted at semester conclusion. There will be no formal tests or final examination.
ISYE 4803 ALE 21750 Advanced Simulation Depth for OR and General; breadth for SCE, EFS, and Q&S. Alexopoulos, Christos ISYE 3044 Organization of discrete-event simulation languages; Modeling with Simio, a state-of-the art simulation package; Statistical aspects of simulation studies including input data analysis, generation of realizations from statistical distributions, output data analysis, and simulation-based optimization.
ISYE 4803 LAL 26161 Supply Chain Project Breadth for Q&S, SCE, EFS, OR. Laliberte, Andrea Junior or senior standing In this course you will work in teams on a typical supply chain/industrial engineering project. You will learn information gathering, problem definition, application of methods, professionalism, teamwork, oral and written communication. Special emphasis will be placed on incorporating the business objectives into the problem solving, how to work as a team and how to present results to different audiences.
ISYE 4803 LUJ 26020 Business Analytics Depth for Q&S, breadth for SCE, E&FS, OR. Lu, J.C. CS 4400 (prerequisite), ISYE 4031 (with concurrency) Increasingly, decision-makers rely on intelligent technology to analyze data systematically and timely for meeting inquiry and solution deadlines and improving decision quality. This course will examine how data mining procedures can be used to improve decision analytics. The course will build on real-life examples and teach students how to formulate decision-making problems into business analytics queries.  Data analysis software will be integrated into database query language and visualization tools for exploring intelligence reside in the data.  Hands-on team projects will be required.
ISYE 4803 HSE 30832 Healthcare Engineering Breadth for Q&S, SCE, E&FS, and OR; can replace ISYE 3039 or 4301 for General. Ayer, Turgay ISYE 2028, 3232, and 3133/3833 This is a course in Healthcare Systems Engineering techniques and processes. The course will develop a fundamental understanding of quantitative tools used to perform system analyses and make decisions in the health care context. 
ISYE 4803 SHA 26993 Facility Layout and Warehousing Depth for SCE; breadth for Q&S, OR, E&FS. Sharp, Gunter ISYE 3104 (with concurrency) The course covers:  1) traditional topics: activity relationships, from-to-charts, traditional layout planning;   2) evaluation methods: multi-criterion analysis, economic analysis for capital-intensive projects;  3) storage systems:  low-tech, small parts, high-density, satellite vehicle;  4) material flow systems: fork-lift, AGV, conveyor, overhead monorail;  5) DC operations;  6) Cases: Avon, Coca-Cola, AutoZone.

 

Undergraduates with last names A-F
Academic Advisor James Turneur
James Turneur

James collaborates with undergraduate students in short-term and long-term academic planning including: course planning, assistance with course registration questions, internships, study abroad, and co-op exploration, and assisting with retention, progression, and graduation of Georgia Tech ISyE students.

Appointment Days:

  • Monday 
  • Tuesday 
  • Wednesday 
  • Friday

Walk-in Hours:

  • Thursday 9:30-11:30am,
                    1:30-3:30pm

Location:

  • Groseclose Building, Suite 203
Undergraduates with last names G-L
Academic Advisor Fran Buser
Fran Buser

Fran Dillon Buser brings a strong business background and attention to detail to her work with ISyE Undergraduate students.  She assists with long term and short term academic planning including course scheduling and registration, study abroad, co-op/ internship, degree certification, degree petitions, and letters of recommendation.   Other areas of interest include change of major process, Freshman and Transfer student orientation, Family Weekend, Undergraduate Awards Ceremony, GT 1000 Freshman Seminar, Commencement and prospective student visits.   She is a member of GTAAN, NACADA, and Toastmasters.  Away from the office she enjoys her family, friends, hiking, biking, music and reading.

Appointment Days:

  • Monday 
  • Tuesday 
  • Wednesday 
  • Friday

Walk-in Hours:

  • Thursday 9:30-11:30am,
                    1:30-3:30pm

Location:

  • Groseclose Building, Suite 203
Undergraduates with last names M-R
Sudie Pennebaker
Sudie Pennebaker

Sudie Pennebaker is an Academic Advisor II for the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech.

Sudie’s primary responsibility is academic advising for ISyE undergraduate students where she assists with their long and short term academic planning. She assists with students’ course scheduling and registration and provides support to students as they work towards graduation. She also teaches GT 1000 during the Fall semester.

Prior to joining ISyE, Sudie was the academic advisor for the Master of Industrial Design program at Georgia Tech and oversaw the admission efforts for the MID program. 

Appointment Days:

  • Monday 
  • Tuesday 
  • Wednesday 
  • Friday

Walk-in Hours:

  • Thursday 9:30-11:30am,
                    1:30-3:30pm

Location:

  • Groseclose Building, Suite 203
Undergraduates with last names S-Z
Jonathan Lowe
Jonathan Lowe

Dr. Lowe’s primary responsibilities focus on academic advising for our ISyE undergraduate students, including both short-term and long-term academic planning.  He also works with ISyE student organizations, industry representatives, our ISyE GT 1000 seminars, and teaches one class per semester.

Appointment Days:

  • Monday 
  • Tuesday 
  • Wednesday 
  • Friday

Walk-in Hours:

  • Thursday 9:30-11:30am,
    ​                1:30-3:30pm

Location:

  • Groseclose Building, Suite 203

Annual Academic Advisement Meetings

The advising meeting is a chance to work one-on-one with your advisor to plan your academic path: outline your course plan for the next academic year, plan study or work abroad, co-op/internship, undergraduate research, or other participation in enrichment programs.

Freshmen and Seniors

  • Encouraged to visit their academic advisor at least once a year

Sophomores and Juniors

  • Sophomores required to attend an annual advising presentation.
  • Juniors required to make an individual advising appointment.
Junior Advisement Form

We are fortunate to have three of our distinguished alumni come back to ISyE as Professors of the Practice and take residence in ISyE to teach and offer career advisement to our students. The objective of career development advising is to give ISyE students the opportunity to meet with an ISyE practitioner to discuss career objectives.

Career development meetings may include:

  • Career opportunities within ISyE
  • Skills, activities and courses necessary for workplace success
  • Resume review
  • Job offer discussions

The discussion should not include:

  • Job search help
  • Networking help
  • Resume writing
 

 

Ronald L. Johnson

Ronald L. Johnson

"When you come to visit me for career advising, I won’t challenge what you think, but I may challenge how you think. The important thing is that I want you to be successful. And a crucial element of being successful, in whatever you do, is to manage your time. Time is the most important asset that any of us have – we can’t buy it or save it – once it’s gone it is gone. So make the most of your time here, and sample all that is here for you. Come by and let’s talk about what awaits your future."

For students with last names starting with H through O.
 

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Dima Nazzal

Dima Nazzal

I have worked in academia as a faculty; teaching and conducting research.  I have worked in industry as an engineer, and as a researcher.  My goal is to give you perspective on the professional practice of Industrial Engineering.  When you meet with me, expect me to ask you big picture questions:  What do you want to accomplish in your professional life?  What kind of environment inspires you?  Why did you choose IE as a major?

For students with last names starting with A through G.

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Moe Trebuchon

Moe Trebuchon

After completing a 28 year career in management consulting, I am blessed to return home to the ISyE school as both an instructor and a career advisor. Having served as a hiring manager that recruited many GT ISyE students while working at both PwC and IBM, I have witnessed first hand the vast potential for achievement that GT students possess. But, I have also witnessed the challenges that some of you have in demonstrating this via your resume or during the interview process. In my role as a career advisor, I welcome the opportunity to help our students accelerate their long term impact by preparing themselves with experiences, credentials, and messaging that allows them to succeed in starting their unique professional journey. I look forward to meeting many of you and seeking to make a positive contribution to your future success.  

For students with last names starting with P through Z.

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