Masters Equivalent Coursework if Applicable (32 credit hours)
Students are often admitted to the PhD program with an applicable MS/MA and can proceed directly to Stage II; however, if you were admitted directly from a BS/BA degree, you will need to complete these 32 credit hours of MS coursework. The MS Equivalent coursework can be found in the PhD Degree Requirements.
PhD Students are required to select an advisor for their thesis research/dissertation. To get this process going, students should:
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Advisor Agreement
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It is sometimes the case that a student finds a faculty advisor outside of ISE. This is completely fine; however, you must also have a faculty advisor from ISE who will serve as your advisor as well. In this case, both the faculty member outside of ISE and the faculty member in ISE would serve as co-advisors. Please alert the Graduate Programs Office to this and we will provide you with details on how to add your faculty member from outside of ISE.
Qualifying Examination
A Qualifying Examination is required of all ISE PhD students and consists of two components – the written exam and the oral exam. More information about each component is provided later in this section.
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- Decision and Control
- SE 320 (Control Systems)
- SE 424 (State Space Design for Control)
- SE 520 (Analysis of Nonlinear Systems – Crosslisted as ECE 528/ME 546/ECE 528)
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- Design and Manufacturing
- Choose 1 -- IE 513 (Optimal System Design) or SE 413 (Engineering Design Optimization)
- Choose 2 -- SE 410 (Component Design), SE 411 (Reliability Engineering), SE 412 (Nondestructive Evaluation), SE 450 (Decision Analysis I), SE 530 (Multiattribute Decision Making)
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- Operations Research
- IE 410 (Advanced Topics in Stochastic Processes & Applications)
- IE 411 (Optimization of Large Systems)
- Choose 1 -- IE 510 (Applied Nonlinear Programming), IE 511 (Integer Programming), IE 512 (Networking Analysis of Systems), or IE 521 (Convex Optimization)
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