Degree: Master of Engineering, Master of Engineering Science
Major: Industrial Engineering
Hours: 30
The Lamar University Master of Engineering or Master of Engineering Science Degree in Industrial Engineering will sharpen your skills and prepare you for an exciting career improving complex systems. You may find career opportunities in a wide range of industries including manufacturing, transportation, retail, software and finance.
Lean Manufacturing: You will learn how to planning, evaluation, deployment and integration of lean manufacturing theory and methods into manufacturing and service systems.
Supply Chain Management: You will learn logistics, purchasing, inventory systems, demand management and supply chain visibility.
Enterprise Business Intelligence: You will learn data mining, data integration, data cleaning, classification algorithms, clustering, regression and neural networks.
Automated System Engineering: You will learn control system, PLC, sensor and actuator, auto-id, flexible manufacturing system, assembly line, robotics and automatic inspection.
Production and Inventory Control: You will learn Inventory Management, Forecasting, aggregate planning, materials requirements planning, scheduling and project management.
Computer Integrated Manufacturing: You will learn computer aided design and manufacturing including 3D modeling environment, robotics and computer numerical control machine tools.
Applied programming: You will learn how to use Python and software libraries to solve data science and optimizing problems.
Database: You will learn SQL to store and analyze data.
ERP Overview: You will learn how to use SAP to do production planning and inventory control.
As an industrial engineer, most of your work will center around the ultimate goal of helping production or manufacturing processes to run more efficiently. To be an effective industrial engineer, you need to be comfortable in a leadership role and possess the ability to work with a team. Around 70% of industrial engineers work at manufacturing companies, and many have specific areas of specialization, such as assembly, raw-product processing or administrative practices.
Brian Craig, Ph.D., P.E., C.P.E.
Maryam Hamidi, Ph.D.
Berna Eren Tokgoz, Ph.D.
Victor Zaloom, Ph.D., P.E.