The goal of Industrial and Systems Engineering is to ensure that manufacturing or service organization systems are efficient, productive, safe, and well designed against cumulative injury, and that the systems incorporate the right tools and equipment. The Master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering curriculum prepares engineers for these activities and helps achieve the goals of ISE in a manufacturing or service organization. It prepares students to bridge the gap between operations and management with courses ranging from operations planning and control, quality assurance and reliability, human factors and ergonomics, human-machine interaction, information engineering, and cost-effectiveness analysis, to organizational development and total quality management. It prepares students to enter the profession immediately or to enter a PhD program.
Core ISE Courses
ISE 230. Advanced Operations Research
ISE 235. Quality Assurance and Reliability
ISE 240. Analytics for Systems Engineering
Courses in an ISE Specialty Area
Four Courses from one of the following four specialty areas: (a) production and quality assurance, (b) human factors engineering, (c) supply chain and logistics engineering, or (d) healthcare and service systems engineering.
Expected April 2025
Start date
Expected January, August 2025
Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering
San Jose State University,
One Washington Square,
SAN JOSE,
California,
95192, United States
U.S. bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution, or the completion of a 4-year bachelor’s degree from a recognized, accredited, and approved institution from a country outside of the U.S. A 2.5 GPA (from the 0.0-4.0 U.S. grading scale) in the last degree completed or a 2.5 GPA in the last two years of full-time study.
English Language Proficiency: IELTS: 6.5; TOEFL – 80 (IBT), paper based – 550, Computer based – 213; Pearson Test of English (PTE) – 53. Graduate Record Exam (GRE) Preparation - Combined minimum score of 285.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.