Industrial & Enterprise Systems

Program Overview

The Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (ISE) is one of the newest departments within the University of Illinois College of Engineering. Building on the traditions of the former Department of General Engineering and Industrial Engineering program, ISE prepares students with the combined business and systems engineering education they need to thrive in an enterprise-oriented world. We invite you to join us as we build a powerhouse in industrial and enterprise systems engineering.

Graduates of the Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering are leaders in large scale systems design, logistics, and decision making. A sampling of possible research topics include:

• Control and performance evaluation of systems
• Data-mining and system identification
• Financial engineering
• Environmentally sustainable design
• Game theory and equilibrium programming
• Large scale optimization methods and applications
• Optimal product design and development
• Supply chain and revenue management
• Decision analysis
• Stochastic algorithms
• Non-destructive systems evaluation
• Organization behavior

Online Certificate

Online Graduate Certificate in Systems Engineering

The College of Engineering now offers a graduate certificate that concentrates on the principles and practice of systems engineering. Increasingly, engineers in many disciplines are called to integrate subsystems and processes across an enterprise or organization, and doing so requires a set of tools, techniques, and skills. The certificate is directed at students with an engineering background who aspire to rise in technical management and therefore need a more integrative set of planning and decision-making tools. All courses are offered via the Internet using streaming technology. This program is restricted to off-campus professionals and is not intended for those who are in a University of Illinois on-campus degree program.

• How to Apply

To earn a Professional Development Certificate, the student must complete three of the following courses earning a B- or higher in each course:

• GE 411 — Introduction to Reliability Engineering (3 or 4 hours)
• GE 498 DA1 — Decision Analysis I - not yet available online
• IE 431 (GE 498 QE) — Quality Engineering (3 hours)
• GE 530 — Multiattribute Decision Making (4 hours)
• GE 531 — Genetic Algorithm Methods (4 hours)

Students are required to maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher for the sequence and receive a letter grade of B- or higher in each course.

Courses completed as part of the Systems Engineering certificate, may be applied to a graduate degree. We currently offer a Master of Computer Science (MCS) and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) online. Up to 12 hours of course work completed prior to being admitted to the Graduate College, with a grade of at least a B, may be petitioned to count toward a graduate degree (courses must be no more than five years old prior to admission to the Graduate College). Admission to a certificate program is not a guarantee of future admission to a degree program. 

Online Courses

• GE 530 — Multiattribute Decision Making

Contact Information

Please contact the Office of Online and Professional Engineering Programs with questions.

Department Page

http://ise.illinois.edu