Industrial Engineering program at UIC offers several concentration areas. All industrial engineering undergraduate students select a concentration area during their last two years of study. To fulfill the
requirements of each concentration area, the students need to take certain courses from other departments at UIC. For example, a student with a Healthcare Management concentration has to take at least two courses that are offered by the UIC College of Medicine and UIC School of Public Heath. The concentration areas have been designed based on the current job market trends. The students within each concentration area will likely have hiring advantages in finding a job related to their concentration area. For example industrial engineering graduates with a Healthcare Management concentration will have a higher chance to be hired as a hospital system analyst, healthcare system designer, hospital manager, etc.
Industrial Engineering Concentration Areas
Healthcare Management
Topics
Hospital information systems, hospital operations management, emergency room planning and resource scheduling
Description
Healthcare represents an important and growing industry. Removing inefficiencies in healthcare management poses numerous challenges. Tools and techniques for understanding and overcoming them are covered in this subspeciality.
Course list
1. BioE 402 Medical Technology Assessment
2. BioE 408 Medical Product Development
3. BHIS 460 Introduction to Health Informatics (1 credit internet course), concurrently with BHIS 461 Information Systems for Health Information Management (2 credits)
Quality and Reliability Engineering
Topics
Statistical quality control, total quality management, Six Sigma, reliability of complex systems
Description
Students with this concentration are able to design and perform quality control and reliability analysis for manufacturing and service systems. They learn about different statistical quality control and reliability engineering methods including control charts, experimental design, six sigma, risk and reliability analysis. They also study many tools that are used for real quality and reliability engineering applications.
Course list
ENGR403: Reliability Engineering
IDS473: Introduction to Risk Management
EOHS418: Analysis of Water and Wastewater Quality
EOHS408: Biological, Chemical, Explosives, and Nuclear Weapons as Public Health Threats
Safety Engineering
Topics
Physical, chemical, and biological hazards in the workplace; occupational exposure assessment; standards and legislation affecting worker health and safety; engineering and administrative control of workplace hazards
Description
The concentration in Safety Engineering involves the prevention of acute traumatic injury as well as chronic disease, with special emphasis on the occupational environment. Students that choose the Safety Engineering concentration will develop a foundation in occupational health and safety, and will be ready to work with other engineers and health professionals to protect individuals in the work environment. Students will be prepared to take responsible health and safety roles in industry, and will be well prepared for advanced study in occupational safety.
Course list
EOHS 421 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (2 hr)
and
EOHS 424 Environmental Acoustics (2 hr)
and either
EOHS 482 Occupational Safety Science (2 hr)
or
EOHS 400 Principles of Environmental Health Sciences (3 hr)
Transportation Engineering
Topics
Introduction to transportation engineering, Highway geometric design, Traffic engineering and design, Public transit operations and technology
Description
This concentration focuses on the design, operations, management and planning of transportation systems, including road and public transit. Students also learn about capacity management, traffic control and highway capacity analysis. The students graduated with this concentration can seek job opportunities in government agencies, public transportation, but also consulting and civil engineering structural construction firms.
Course list
CME 302 Introduction to Transportation Engineering
CME 402 Highway Geometric Design
CME 408 Traffic Engineering and Design
CME 412 Public Transit Operations and Technology
Manufacturing and Automation
Topics
Computer integrated manufacturing, programmable logic controllers, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, Mechatronics, Computer aided design (CAD)
Description
Students with this concentration are able to design, analyze and implement automated manufacturing systems. Main components of automated systems such as controllers, robots, sensors, and actuators are taught in this concentration. Students will learn the principles of computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) as well. The design and implementation of mechatronics systems (systems combined of mechanical and electrical functions) are also covered. Students graduating with this concentration can seek job opportunities in almost any industry that has manufacturing automation subsystems.
Course list
ME312 Dynamic Systems and Control (3)
ME410 Automation and Robotic Applications (3)
ME411 Mechatronics I (3)
ME447 Introduction to Computer Aided Design (3)
Virtual Engineering
Topics
Virtual automation, Interdisciplinary product design, Virtual factory, Haptics, Computer graphics
Description
Virtual engineering combines engineering knowledge with advanced user interfaces such as virtual reality, visualization and haptics for developing new engineering applications.
Course list
1. IE/ME 446 Interdisciplinary Product Design
2. ME 447 Computer-Aided Design
3. CS 488 Introduction to Computer Graphics
4. AD 407 - Virtual Reality I
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