Specialty Area 3: Healthcare and Service Systems Engineering

Three Core Prerequisites or Equivalents, if not completed yet:

• ISE 201 - Engineering Statistics, or Equivalent (Not for Graduate Credit) 
• ISE 140 - Operations Planning and Control, or Equivalent (Not for Graduate Credit)
• ISE 167 - System Simulation, or Equivalent

Four Core Courses

• ISE 230 - Advanced Operations Research
• ISE 240 – Analytics for Systems Engineering
• ISE 235 - Quality Assurance and Reliability
• ISE 298 - M.S. Project or Comprehensive Exam. or ISE 299 - MS Thesis

Four Specialty Courses

Two Required Courses:

• ISE 242 - Advanced Service Systems Engineering and Management
• ISE 260 – Process Improvements in Healthcare

Two out of the Following Four Courses:

• ISE 200 – Financial Methods for Engineers
• ISE 250 – Leading the Six Sigma Improvement Projects
• ISE 251 – Managing Lean Enterprise Improvement Program
• ISE 261 – Medical Errors Reduction and Patients Safety Engineering

Two Electives

• Two graduate ISE courses in other specialty areas/See Graduate Advisor