Electives for Industrial Engineering

The information below details information regarding electives and technical electives for undergraduate students in Industrial Engineering.

The BSIE curriculum requires students to take three technical electives, one IE elective, and one free elective. Any IE technical elective would also satisfy the IE elective and free elective requirement and any IE elective would also satisfy the free elective. However, IE and free electives do not fulfill a technical elective requirement. Other technical courses in Engineering, Math, CS, Kinesiology, OIM, and science departments might be acceptable as either an elective or a technical elective. There is no a limit to how many electives that can be taken outside of the department, however if the course is not listed below, please e-mail your student number and the course description to Dr. Sheehan for approval.

The free elective can be any course at the university except one that is a prerequisite for a required course (e.g., Math 104) or which overlaps significantly with a required course (e.g., Math 127). These courses do not require approval from Dr. Sheehan.

Please note that any course listed below is an approved technical elective or elective. Be sure to carefully read the categories below to determine if the course satisfies the elective or technical elective requirement prior to enrollment. In addition, please verify your eligibility to take the listed electives by reviewing their associated pre-requisite courses in SPIRE.

In your ARR, if the course is listed in the “other courses” section or under the incorrect type of elective, please message Kevin Romani, who will make the ARR adjustment for you. If it is a course that was taken in a previous semester, he will make the change immediately. For any classes in progress, please wait to request the ARR adjustment until after the add/drop period ends.

IE Technical Electives

Students should determine the area of IE that most interests them as early as possible in their undergraduate careers and consider elective courses whenever they qualify. To assist in that endeavor, the following tracks are offered with technical electives to support your interests (including the upcoming semesters they will tentatively be offered):

  1. Artificial Intelligence & Decision Analytics:
    • MIE 522 – Predictive Analytics & Statistical Learning: every spring
    • MIE 524 – Machine Learning for Dynamic Decision-Making: S27
    • MIE 525/625 – Deep Learning for Engineering Applications: F26
  2. Health Applications:
    • MIE 458 – Connections in Medicine, Biology, & Engineering: S28
    • SOM 533 – Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare
  3. Human Factors:
    • MIE 550 – Vehicle Automation: S28
    • MIE 556 – Augmented and Virtual Reality Design: every fall
  4. Supply Chain & Manufacturing:
    • MIE 553 – Industrial Automation: every fall
    • MIE 578 – Supply Chain Logistics: S28
    • MIE 690 STB – Industry 4.0 Tech & Systems: every spring (requires instructor approval)
  5. Transportation Systems:
    • MIE 550 – Vehicle Automation: S28
    • MIE 578 – Supply Chain Logistics: S28
    • CEE 310 – Transportation: every fall
  6. Mechanical Engineering:
    • MIE 230 – Thermodynamics; every semester
    • MIE 310 – Dynamics; every semester
    • MIE 313 – Design of Mechanical Components; every semester
    • MIE 340 – Fluid Mechanics; every semester
  7. Other:
    • BCT 520, 540, 550
    • CEE 370, 410, 411, 418, 450, 470
    • ECE 242; CICS 210; Computer Science 250, 311
    • Kinesiology 460
    • Math 412, 425, 455, 551, 552
    • MIE 496 (Independent Study; see Reg. Notes for form and instructions)
    • MIE 499 P/T (Honors Thesis Part II; for CHC students only & enrolled by CHC)
    • RES ECON 471

IE Electives

Students should determine the area of IE that most interest them and consider elective courses whenever they qualify. To assist in that endeavor, the following themes are offered with potential electives to support your interests (including the upcoming semesters that will tentatively be offered). Please note that the IE elective requirement can also be satisfied with the IE technical electives listed above.

  1. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering:
    • MIE 124 – MATLAB (if not used in place of CS 119); every spring
    • MIE 381H – Inclusive Design in Healthcare; every fall
    • MIE 386H – Climate and Energy Justice; ever spring
    • MIE 396 – Independent Study (see Reg. Notes for form and instructions)
    • MIE 398T – Practicum (Required for first time TAs); every semester
    • MIE 499 Y – Honors Thesis Part I (for CHC students only; enrolled by CHC)
  2. STEM*:
    • CHEM 112
    • CICS 110 (if not used in place of CS 119)
    • KIN 270, 272
    • Management 341
    • PSYCH 209H, 307, 330, 380
    • RES ECON 202, 312, 313
  3. Other*: 
    • Engineering Management Minor (EMM) courses
    • MSEM courses (645, 646, 664, 670, 671, etc)

*IE students may need special permission from the course department to enroll in the classes above. Please first read the course description of the class in SPIRE to see if enrollment instructions are provided. If not, please contact either the instructor or the course’s home department for assistance.

Last Updated August 2026