Industrial Engineering Major, Doctor of Engineering (DEng)

Concentration Optional

Engineering Management Concentration

Campus Code

Knoxville Campus
Distance Ed

Admissions Standards/Procedures

Admission to the Industrial Engineering Major for the Doctor of Engineering (DEng) degree requires a master’s degree in engineering management, industrial engineering, or closely related field, and previous academic performance that clearly demonstrates the capacity to do technical investigative work with potential for an engineering leadership career. The admission also requires a minimum of 3.30 GPA from an earned master’s degree and a minimum of 2.70 GPA from an earned bachelor’s degree, preferably in science or technology.

Academic Standards

Students will be required to maintain a 3.00 GPA.

Credit Hours

This doctoral program requires a total of 72 graduate credit hours. As we require a masters coming in, this results in 48 post masters credit hours. This is broken down into the following requirements:

Transfer from masters: 24 credit hours

Required Classes: 21 credit hours

Elective Classes: 9 credit hours

Capstone Hours: 18 credit hours

Required Courses

• IE 522 - Optimization Methods in Industrial Engineering 3 credit hours
• IE 526 - Advanced Applications of Systems Modeling and Simulation 3 credit hours
• IE 533 - Theory and Practice of Engineering Management 3 credit hours
• IE 536 - Project Management 3 credit hours
• IE 550 - Graduate Seminar 1 credit hour taken 3 times
• IE 601 - Systems Theory and Engineering 3 credit hours
• IE 605 - Supply Chain and Logistics Systems Engineering 3 credit hours
• IE 650 - Doctoral Capstone Project 18 credit hours

Elective Courses

Three elective graduate courses (3 credit hours each) for a total of 9 credit hours. Must be 500-level IE courses.

Capstone

A significant project, or capstone, consisting of a body of applied and practical methods/products with the main goal of solving complex industrial problems. 

Doctoral Committee

A well-formed committee for the DEng degree must have at least three committee members.

• Two members (including the Chair) must be doctorally-prepared faculty members with a tenure track or tenured appointment in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at UTK.

• One member must be a doctorally-prepared faculty member with an appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor or above in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering or other department at UTK.