Industrial engineering advising

The goal of advisement is to provide you with guidance in planning your academic and professional careers. All students in Industrial Engineering are advised by the College of Engineering advisors at the Engineering Advising Center in the Scrugham Engineering & Mines Building, Suite 131. If you have questions about special permission, technical electives, graduate school, or other industrial engineering topics you can contact a faculty mentor. Faculty contact information is in the table at the bottom of the page. For a complete description of the IE program and its classes please see the University course catalog. 

Announcements

  • CHE 245 has been replaced by CS 138. 
  • IMSE  450, 460, 473, 482, 488, and 490 will not be offered until the 2027-2028 academic year.
  • ENGR 465 is no longer required for the IE degree.

Appointments

Advising appointments can be scheduled using Navigate. You can also visit the Engineering Advising Center web page for additional information.

Policies

  • Course Waivers: The Industrial Engineering Program does not give waivers for pre-requisites or co-requisites. 
  • Repeat Policy: A course may only be taken a maximum of 3 times. For C or better courses, you have 3 tries to get a C; all other courses, you have 3 tries to get a D-. You need advisor permission to enroll in a course a 3rd time and you must sign a form stating you know that it is your final chance to enroll in the course. 

Technical electives

Most electives are only offered once a year. Out of the 15 required units, a minimum of 3 units of IMSE technical electives are required. At most 3 units may be taken from a subject outside an ABET accredited engineering field.  See the course catalog for possible elective courses and MyNevada for current course offerings. 

Substitutions

If you would like to use an upper division course that is not listed on the catalog, you must get faculty mentor approval. The list of faculty members below shows who approves electives. 

Suggested course sequence

The recommended schedule for the industrial engineering curriculum, available on the course catalog, is designed so that you complete prerequisite courses before you take more advanced courses and so that you can avoid scheduling problems. 
If you enter the University in the fall semester with all your college preparatory courses completed, you can complete your degree in four years by following this sequence. While you do not need to complete the curriculum in exactly the order shown, you are required to complete prerequisite courses before you enroll in more advanced classes. 
External conditions may prevent you from completing the curriculum in the suggested order. This can substantially increase the time required to complete your degree, since some courses are not offered every semester and some of these courses are prerequisites for higher-level classes. 
The curriculum flow chart identifies the courses that are prerequisites and co-requisites for more advanced classes. If you must take courses out of the suggested sequence, you should consider this information very carefully in consultation with your advisor. 

Faculty contacts

Matteo Aureli, accelerated BS/MS; graduate program director 
Angelina Padilla, National Merit Scholars and Presidential Scholars; approvals and waivers 
Petros Voulgaris, school head; approvals and waivers 
For all program faculty, see the faculty website