ISE Graduate Program: Course Requirements
Four ISE Specialty Areas and One Interdisciplinary Specialty Area
THREE CORE PREREQUISITES OR EQUIVALENTS, IF NOT COMPLETED YET:
ISE 130 – Engineering Probability and 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 ISE SPECIALTY AREAS
FOUR CORE COURSES (Three Lecture Courses Plus a Project, a Comprehensive Exam. or a Thesis):
ISE 200 – Financial Methods in Engineering
ISE 230 - Advanced Operations Research
ISE 235 - Quality Assurance and Reliability
ISE 298 - M.S. Project or Comprehensive Exam. or ISE 299 – MS Thesis
FOUR SELECTED COURSES IN ONE OF FOUR ISE SPECIALTY AREAS:
Specialty Area 1: Production and Quality Assurance
Specialty Area 2: Supply Chain Engineering
Specialty Area 3: System and Information and Modeling
Specialty Area 4: Human Factors
Specialty Area 5: Service Systems Engineering (SSE)
SJSU TECHNIICAL-WRITING REQUIREMENT (ISE 270; ISE 212 after ISE 210; or Others)

