DEGREE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE
DEPARTMENT OF
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH
December 2007
Students are
required to complete 24 semester units of coursework, 12 units of which must be
graduate courses in the major taken for a letter grade. IEOR298 units do not count towards this
requirement.
All students
are required to take at least one course from each of the following groups:
1.
Optimization: 162, 262A, 262B, 264, 266, 268, 269
2.
Stochastic
Models: 131, 161, 165, 166, 263A, 263B,
265, 267
3.
Modeling: 150, 153, 215, 220,221, 250, 251, 253,254,290A,290R
A Master of
Science student who wishes to specialize in a sub-area of the discipline may
include one or more of the following tracks in his or her program. Students are not required to choose a track,
but may instead, customize their selections.
All Master of Science students, whether they choose a track or a
customized program, must complete the requirements of the Master of Science
degree listed above. Current tracks are
listed below. They are revised periodically
as course offerings change.
See requirements
for Certificate Program in Logistics.
See requirements
for Management of Technology Certificate Program.
IEOR 263A
2 of: IEOR 221,
261, 262B, 263B, 264, 266, 267, 268, 269
Production and Service Operations Track
Two of the
following: IEOR 250, IEOR 251, IEOR 254
One of the following: IEOR 150, 151, 153 *
One of IEOR 130, 131 or 165, or another course from the preceding category. *
*Students may substitute another related course if they have prior
equivalent coursework.
IEOR115 or
IEOR215
IEOR261 or
IEOR131
2 of: IEOR166,
262A, BA147, 148
In addition to
course and waiver exam requirements, students are required to complete one of
two options: a comprehensive exam or a Master’s project and oral presentation
of this project. The structure of the
comprehensive exam may vary from year to year, but is designed so that students
whose curriculum includes 12 units of graduate courses in the major and
satisfies the group distribution listed above should be prepared to take the
exam. At the current time, the
comprehensive exam consists of a short oral presentation, to a panel of two or
three faculty, of a solution to a case study, for which the students will be
given at least two weeks to prepare, followed by relevant questions from the
faculty panel.
All students
in the department must also take the Department Seminar, IEOR 298-1, for one
unit. Beyond these requirements, the
program is quite flexible. No more than
two units of independent study (299) may be counted toward the degree. The remainder of the program can include
electives outside the department.
Entering
students are expected to have two years of undergraduate mathematics, primarily
calculus but including linear algebra.
In addition, they are expected to have completed at least one semester
each of upper division courses in probability and in statistics. They should also have competency in a
scientific programming language.
Students may
complete the requirements by writing a thesis, rather than taking a
Comprehensive Examination. The course
requirements under the thesis option are the same as under the Comprehensive
option. Under the thesis option, the
minimum unit requirement of regular course work is 20 units, not including the
thesis. A committee of three professors,
including one from outside the IEOR Department, will be formed to guide and
approve the thesis.
In general,
the first year Doctoral Requirements meet the requirements of the MS degree,
but the reverse is not necessarily true.
Students who are interested in earning a Ph.D. should apply to enter the
MS/PhD if they do not yet have an MS degree.
More detailed information on the Entrance Exam may be found in the
section on Degree Requirements for
the Ph.D.