Technical Electives for Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering Technical Electives

As of March 10, 2025

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. Decision Analytics (core classes MIE 272 & MIE 273):
    • MIE 522 – Predictive Analytics & Statistical Learning: every spring
    • MIE 524 – Machine Learning for Dynamic Decision-Making: S26
  2. Health Applications (core classes MIE 379 & MIE 380):
    • MIE 458 – Connections in Medicine, Biology, & Engineering: S26
    • MIE 565 – Operations Research in Healthcare: TBD
    • CS 590w – Health Informatics & Data Science
    • SOM 533 – Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare
  3. Human Factors (core class MIE 360):
    • MIE 550 – Vehicle Automation: S26
    • MIE 556 – Augmented and Virtual Reality Design: F25
  4. Supply Chain & Manufacturing (core classes MIE 375 & MIE 477; should take the latter 6th semester):
    • MIE 553 – Industrial Automation: every fall
    • MIE 578 – Supply Chain Logistics: S26
    • MIE 690 STB – Industry 4.0 Tech & Systems: every spring (requires instructor approval)
  5. Transportation Systems (core class MIE 477; should take 6th semester):
    • MIE 550 – Vehicle Automation: S26
    • MIE 578 – Supply Chain Logistics: S26
    • CEE 310 – Transportation
    • OIM 413 - Logistics and Transportation
  6. Mechanical Engineering (core class MIE 211)
    • MIE 230 – Thermodynamics
    • MIE 310 – Dynamics
    • MIE 340 – Fluid Mechanics
    • MIE 302 – Junior Lab
    • MIE 313 – Design of Mechanical Components

 

Minors: IE students can consider technical minors like computer science and math where most courses for the minor satisfy all your electives (technical, IE, and free) or non-technical electives like business (engineering management) where two of the required courses will satisfy the IE and free electives.

As courses are not offered every semester, students should consider taking the IE required courses for which they qualify. Tracks of interest should be identified as early as possible so that students pursuing summer internships or co-ops have some background for the industry positions they are seeking. All IE students should discuss the selection of tracks and electives with their advisors; e-mail your student number, major, and a course description to the Chief Undergraduate Advisor (CUA), Dr. Schliemann, for approval of electives not listed below. There is no limit to how many electives, including technical electives, you can take outside of the department.

Many of these courses will not automatically go to a technical elective spot in your ARR. Know that any course listed above is an approved technical elective. If the course is not where it is supposed to be in your ARR, 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 with Kevin until after the add/drop period ends.   

  1. A Technical Elective can be any 200 or higher level MIE course except MIE 272, MIE 381, MIE 398C, MIE 398T, and the MSEM courses (645, 646, 664, 670, 671, etc.). One Independent study can be used if neither MIE 499Y or 499T/P are used. Other acceptable courses are: CEE 310, 370, 410, 411, 418, 450, 470; ECE 242; CICS 210; Computer Science 250, 311; Kinesiology 460; Math 455, 537, 551, 552; Resource Economics 471; Statistics 516; BCT 520, 540, 550; and OIM 321, 413. Note that students may take 600-level graduate courses only with e-mail permission of the instructor. Please message the instructor after your enrollment appointment opens in SPIRE. You can then forward the approval message to Kevin Romani, who will enroll you into the class directly.
  2. An IE Elective course includes any technical elective courses; MIE 381, MIE 398C, MIE 398T; Chemical Engineering 290a; Chemistry 112; CICS 110 or Computer Science 119 (if you completed MIE 124); Resource Economics 202, 312, 313; Psychology 209H, 304, 307, 330, 380; Kinesiology 270, 272; Management 341; Math 412, 425; and both EMM and MSEM courses (MIE 645, 646, 664, 670, 671, etc.).
  3. 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).