Department Information

SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (SIE )

Contact Information:

Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering The University of Arizona Engineering Building, 111 PO Box 210020 Tucson, AZ 85721-0020

Phone: (520) 626-8181 Fax: (520) 621-6555 Email: celia@sie.arizona.edu Web: Department Homepage

General Information:

SIE  Course Descriptions

Faculty Members

The Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering is in the College of Engineering and Mines.

Degrees, Majors, Minors, and Options:

Baccalaureate Degrees

• Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (B.S.In.E.)
• Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering (B.S.Sy.E.)

Graduate Degrees -- consult the Graduate Catalog or department office for details.

• Master of Science (M.S.)
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Majors and Degrees -- undergraduate degrees link to the Degree/Academic Program Requirements Reports (APRRs).

• Industrial Engineering (B.S.In.E., M.S.)
• Reliability and Quality Engineering (M.S.)
• Systems & Industrial Engineering (Ph.D.)
• Systems Engineering (B.S.Sy.E., M.S.)

Undergraduate Minors -- minors link to Minor Requirements Reports.

The undergraduate programs do not require a minor; however, students may select an optional minor from the list of approved university minors.  Minors available within the department are:

• Systems & Industrial Engineering Minor

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (ABET Accredited):

Industrial engineering focuses on the design and implementation of integrated systems of people, materials, machines, energy and information. After first specifying system objectives, industrial engineers combine technical knowledge and skill from the physical, engineering and social sciences to design, implement, and operate the system. The industrial engineer is charged with the responsibility of ensuring high quality while simultaneously meeting cost and output goals. This is accomplished through the optimal allocation of resources throughout the system.

Industrial engineers practice in both administrative and production segments of manufacturing and service organizations. Industrial engineers are commonly employed in heavy industry (such as steel), medium industry (such as plastics and computers), and light industry (such as electronics assembly), health-care delivery, telecommunications, transportation and government. In each of these environments, industrial engineers are involved with a variety of systems such as production planning, quality assurance, inventory control, management information, facility layout, job/workplace design, material flow, and distribution. The importance of manufacturing is reflected by the presence of a manufacturing system engineering option.

The modern manufacturing systems engineer designs, installs, implements, improves and manages information-driven integrated manufacturing systems. This option prepares students to organize, schedule, and manage the total manufacturing system, from product design through fabrication, distribution and consumer services.

Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering (ABET Accredited):

Systems engineers design and build systems to meet the needs of people. As computing speed and analytic sophistication have increased, society's needs have become more varied and complex. Graduates of the systems engineering program are prepared to face these needs.

The goal of a systems engineer is to make the best use of resources. Stated formally, systems engineering is concerned with the processes and methodology of modeling, analyzing and designing technologically advanced systems that function safely, effectively, and economically. It requires appreciation and understanding of machines, people, software, hardware, materials, and energy. Systems engineers work on a wide range of activities and applications, including communication systems, computer networking, manufacturing systems, robotics, transportation systems, health-care systems, societal problems and all phases of both industrial and military research and design. To prepare students for careers of such exceptional diversity, the systems engineering curriculum includes operations research, probability and statistics, numerical computing methods, artificial intelligence courses, robotics, and human factors. This is clearly a broader program than most traditional engineering disciplines.

Since computing and related methodology are invariably an integral part of modern systems engineering, the department offers a software option within the systems engineering curriculum.

For more information contact the department office listed above.