The academic mission of the Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering degree program is to enhance the skills of degreed engineers by providing advanced knowledge and skills that are needed to design, model, analyze and manage modern complex systems in order to increase the effectiveness of manufacturing and service sector organizations. Specific learning outcomes are to:

• Integrate, model, continuously improve, control, and if necessary redesign, enterprise activities.
• Perform data analysis and optimization for enterprise decision-making.
• Develop business cases for justifying process, organizational and technological projects.
• Support enterprise performance, quality, efficiency and productivity enhancement activities.
• Facilitate systems engineering and project management.
• Communicate effectively (written, verbal and presentation) across all levels in the enterprise.
• Develop an ability to grow through lifelong acquisition of knowledge.
• Understand professional and ethical behavior to be prepared for ethical decision-making and service to the engineering profession, and have the means to continue in the acquisition of knowledge.