Graduate Programs

OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Degree Offered:
Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor

The interdisciplinary graduate minor in Operations Research is designed to provide advanced problem solving skills and knowledge in the general areas of operations research and optimization to enable their application to effectively address the present-day problems of business, management science, engineering and computer science. This program prepares students for studies leading to the Ph.D. degree. The required courses are offered by the participating departments of Mathematics, Management Information Systems and Operations Management, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Economics and Computer Science.

Admission Requirements. Students admitted to graduate degree programs in the participating departments and the M.B.A. program who are in good standing, are eligible for the minor in Operations Research.

Requirements for the Minor

  1. Declaration of the minor, preferably by the end of the first semester of graduate study.
  2. Formation of a Program Committee: Students who elect to minor in Operations Research will select a participating faculty member as a member of their regular graduate committee. A list of participating faculty will be available from the coordinator of the minor in Operations Research.
  3. Fulfill the requirements of a participative degree program and complete OPRS 6101 and one course each from two of the following areas selected with the advice and knowledge of the student's program committee.

    Mathematics: OPRS 4113, 4114, 5111, 5112 MATH 5165, 7125, 7177 and topics: reliability theory, queuing models, variational methods.

    Computer Science: CSCI 5131, 5150, 6160, 6166

    Management Information Systems and Operations Management: MBAD 6121, 6122, 6141

    Economics: ECON 4100, 4112

    Electrical Engineering: EEGR 6111, 6112, 6115, 6116

    Civil Engineering: CEGR 5090, 6181

  4. Students must have a cumulative 3.0 GPA in courses applied to the minor. Course waivers and transfer credit will be considered on an individual basis.
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