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2017-2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Dual MS-MBA Program – Industrial Engineering


All engineering students enrolled in the dual program must complete course work designed to provide them with an integrated multidisciplinary experience. The MS-MBA curriculum consists of 37 credit hours of course work in the Haslam College of Business and 24 credit hours of course work in the Tickle College of Engineering. The dual-degree candidate must satisfy the curriculum and graduate requirements of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, as well as those of the Haslam College of Business.

Requirements

Fall - First Year

Credit Hours

  Session 1:          7 1/2 weeks  
    ACCT 505 - Financial Accounting I   1.5
    MGT 506 - Competitive Strategy   1.5
    STAT 505 - Quantitative Methods   1.5
    MARK 505 - Marketing and Demand Management I   1.5
    BUAD 515 - Business Skills Development   1.5
  Session 2:          7 1/2 weeks  
    ACCT 506 - Managerial Accounting I   1.5
    FINC 505 - Financial Management I   1.5
    MARK 506 - Marketing and Demand Management II   1.5
    ECON 505 - Economics of Strategy   1.5
    BUAD 516 - Business Skills Development II      1.5
    Total fall 15.0

Spring - First Year

 

    Industrial Engineering Major course 3.0
  Session 1:          7 1/2 weeks  
    MGT 505 - Leading Complex Organizations   1.5
    SCM 505 - Supply Chain Management I: Strategic Issues in Supply Side Supply Chain Management   1.5
    BZAN 505 - Operations Management   1.5
    BZAN 506 - Prescriptive Modeling   1.5
    BUAD 517 - Business Skills Development III   1.5
  Session 2:          7 1/2 weeks  
    SCM 506 - Supply Chain Management II: Strategic Issues in Demand Side Supply Chain Management   1.5
    FINC 506 - Financial Management II   1.5
    BULW 505 - Foundations of Business Law and Ethics   1.5
    ECON 506 - Market Forces in Global Environment   1.5
    BUAD 518 - Innovation in Practice      1.5
    Total spring 18.0

Summer - First Year

 

    Industrial Engineering Major course / Statistics course  6.0
    Total summer 6.0

Fall - Second Year

 

    * IE 516 - Statistical Methods in Industrial Engineering    3.0
    Industrial Engineering elective 3.0
    MBA Electives (Entrepreneurship and Innovation preferred)       6.0
    Total fall 12.0

Spring - Second Year

 

    * IE 518 - Advanced Engineering Economic Analysis   3.0
    * IE 522 - Optimization Methods in Industrial Engineering   3.0
    Industrial Engineering elective 3.0
    Total spring   9.0
Total credit hours required for dual program (non-thesis option) 60.0
Total credit hours required for dual program (thesis option to include 6 hours of IE 500) 63.0

* Industrial Engineering Core Courses are: IE 516 , IE 518 , and IE 522 .

1 The engineering courses selected must satisfy the degree requirements for the Industrial Engineering major. Subject to the approval by departmental Director of Graduate Studies, up to three credit hours of thesis may be substituted for engineering courses.