Specialty Area 5
Specialty Area 5: Service Systems Engineering (SSE)
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 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
Specialty Courses: Four out of Seven Courses
Two Required Courses:
ISE 242 – Advanced Service Systems Engineering and Management
BUS 297D - Special Topics in Business Administration – Service Strategy
Two Out of the Following Four Courses
ISE 265 – Advanced System Simulation
ISE 250* – Leading the Six Sigma Improvement Projects
ISE 222 - Advanced Systems Engineering
ISE 270 - Information Engineering
ELECTIVES: Two ISE elective courses from the following: ISE 202*, ISE 251*, ISE 245, or ISE 247
*NOTE: ISE 202, 235, 250, 251 also fulfill the course requirements for the Six Sigma Black Belt in Service Quality.


