With its distinguished faculty and student body and wonderful staff, the IEOR department is one of the finest schools of Industrial Engineering/Operations Research in the world. Our department is ranked 2nd in the U.S. by the National Research Council.

IEOR faculty are world-renowned experts in many application areas, from semiconductor manufacturing to the design and deregulation of energy markets to supply chain management to robotics to discrete event simulation, and have made important advancements in the theory of operations research, in areas such as algorithm design, integer programming, non-linear programming, and stochastic modeling. Our faculty include fellows of professional societies such as INFORMS, IEEE, ACM.

The department has received millions of dollars of industry and government funding to support research projects. Faculty members have won many awards, including the Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement, the Nicholson Award, the ACM Turing Award, the Lanchaster Prize, Fulkerson Prize. Textbooks written by our faculty members are widely used to teach industrial engineering and operations research.