Admission Requirements

A student must petition K-State’s Graduate School to be admitted into this program. The following requirements must be met before an individual can be admitted into this program.

• The student must be seeking a B.S.I.E. degree from IMSE.
• The student must have completed at least 80 credit hours of his/her undergraduate degree.
• The student’s cumulative undergraduate GPA must be at least 3.25.
• The student must have a member of K-State’s Graduate Faculty in the IMSE department agree to be his/her major professor (this professor can be changed in accordance to K-State’s policies).
• The student must apply for this program before receiving his/her B.S.I.E. degree.

Program Formats and Guidelines

Since there is some overlap between undergraduate and graduate study, some graduate courses will satisfy the degree requirements for the undergraduate degree. A maximum of 9 credit hours from the M.S.I.E. degree can be counted toward the B.S.I.E. degree. Some additional conditions are:

The student must complete all B.S.I.E. undergraduate requirements with the exception that up to 9 credit hours of IMSE 600 level classes taken for graduate credit can also count toward his/her undergraduate degree requirements.

• The student must complete 30 graduate credit hours with a graduate GPA of at least 3.0.
• The student must complete all B.S.I.E. undergraduate requirements with the exception that up to 9 credit hours of IMSE 600 or 700 level classes taken for graduate credit can also count toward his/her undergraduate degree requirements.
• The student must take IMSE 641 and IMSE 666 at the graduate level. (This satisfies two of the core course requirements of the M.S.I.E. degree)
• Up to 9 credit hours of IMSE 600 level classes taken for graduate credit can also count toward the undergraduate degree requirements (e.g. IMSE 641, IMSE 666, and IMSE 643).
• At least 60% of the graduate credit hours on the Graduate Program of Study must be in classes at the 700 level or above. (Note: a student can take at most 4 graduate classes at the 600 level).
• Once a student applies for this program, he/she must be continuously enrolled to complete this program. If a student is not enrolled for a fall or spring semester, this student loses the ability to count graduate credit hours toward his/her undergraduate degree.
• All students must take core course IMSE 811 and also take IMSE 888 if pursuing a coursework only option.
• No more than one “C” will be allowed in any of the core classes–IMSE 641, 666, 811 and 888 (for coursework only students). This may require repeating some classes.
• At most 6 hours of graduate courses can be taken from a department other than IMSE.
• A student pursuing a thesis format, must complete at least 6 credit hours of Masters Thesis (IMSE 899).

Once an individual is admitted to the concurrent B.S./M.S.I.E. degree program, the student should consult the graduate handbook for policies and procedures for graduate degrees, which include: supervisory committee, final examination, thesis defense, etc. The student’s supervisory committee must approve the program of study, which is that student’s graduation requirements.

Once a student has completed all of the graduation requirements, he/she will graduate with both a B.S.I.E. and an M.S.I.E. degree in the same semester. In the event that a student begins this program, but does not wish to finish it, he/she must change 9 credit hours of his/her graduate classes to undergraduate credit and then he/she will receive a B.S.I.E. degree. Once the student has completed 127 credit hours, IMSE Graduate Committee will evaluate whether or not the student will be allowed to continue the concurrent B.S./M.S.I.E. program based upon KSU Graduate School policies. If the committee doesn’t allow the student to continue with the program, then, upon completion of the B.S.I.E. requirements, the student will graduate with a B.S.I.E. degree. In either of these two cases, the student has lost the ability to count courses toward both his/her undergraduate and graduate degree requirements.

Additional Procedures: For at least one year, the student must be enrolled in IMSE 892- Graduate Seminar. Each semester a student in this program must enroll in either:
IMSE 892 - Graduate Seminar
or
IMSE 015 - Engineering Assembly

For more information about Program Format and Minimum Requirements (effective Fall 2008).

The formats for this program are as follows*

*Actual degree requirements will be summarized on an approved plan of study. Some general guidelines include:

• The student must complete all of the B.S.I.E. undergraduate requirements with the exception that up to 9 credit hours of IMSE 600 level classes taken for graduate credit can also count toward his/her undergraduate degree requirements.
• The student must complete at least 30 graduate hours.
• At least 60 percent of graduate courses must be above the 700 level.
• No more than 6 graduate hours can be taken from an outside department without prior permission.
• Graduate courses in the IMSE department must be above the 600 level.
• Graduate courses outside the department must be above the 500 level.
• Continuous enrollment required.
• Each semester a student must enroll in either:
  IMSE 015 - Engineering Assembly Credits: (0)
  or
  IMSE 892 - Graduate Seminar Credits: (0)
  and
  complete at least 2 semesters of IMSE 892 Credits: (0)
• IMSE 811 - Advanced Production and Inventroy Control Credits: (3)
• **IMSE 888 - Research Methods in Industrial Engineering Credits: (3)

• IMSE 015 - Engineering Assembly Credits: (0)
• IMSE 641 - Quality Engineering Credits: (3)

• (for graduate credit)

• IMSE 666 - Operations Research III Credits: (3)

• (for graduate credit)