Admission Requirements

A student must apply for Graduate School admission 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 75 credit hours of the 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 the major professor (this professor can be changed in accordance to K-State’s policies).
• The student must apply for this program before receiving the 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 the undergraduate degree requirements.

• The student must complete 30 graduate credit hours with a graduate GPA of at least 3.0.
• The student must take IMSE 641  at the graduate level. (This satisfies two of the core course requirements of the M.S.I.E. degree)
• 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 or below 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 the undergraduate degree.
• No more than one “C” will be allowed in any of the major required courses–IMSE 641 , IMSE 780  , and IMSE 811  .
• 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 ).
• Students must complete all requirements for the BSIE degree at least one semester prior to completing the MSIE degree.

Once an individual is admitted to the accelerated 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.

In the event that a student begins this program, but does not wish to finish it, he/she must change 9 credit hours of the 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 accelerated B.S./M.S.I.E. program based upon K-State 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 the 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 (effectve 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 one of the following courses:

• IMSE 015 - Engineering Assembly Credits: 0
• IMSE 892 - Graduate Seminar in Industrial Engineering Credits: 0

• (must complete at least 2 semesters of IMSE 892)

A student must complete the following core courses:

• IMSE 641 - Quality Engineering Credits: 3
• IMSE 811 - Advanced Production and Inventory Control Credits: 3

• and

• IMSE 710 - Transportation Logistics Credits: 3
• IMSE 780 - Methods of Operations Research Credits: 3

• or two courses from the following:

• IMSE 751 - Normative Theory of Decisions and Games Credits: 3
• IMSE 752 - Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis Credits: 3
• IMSE 760 - Stochastic Calculus Financial Engineering Credits: 3
• IMSE 810 - Industrial Logistics Engineering Credits: 3
• IMSE 830 - Applied Fuzzy Set Theory Credits: 3
• IMSE 842 - Reliability Theory Credits: 3
• IMSE 881 - Linear Programming Credits: 3
• IMSE 882 - Network Flows and Graph Theory Credits: 3
• IMSE 884 - Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization Credits: 3
• IMSE 865 - Simulation of Industrial Management Systems Credits: 3
• IMSE 866 - Applied Stochastic Processes Credits: 3
• IMSE 971 - Industrial Queuing Processes Credits: 3
• IMSE 976 - Scheduling Theory Credits: 3
• IMSE 982 - Nonlinear Programming Credits: 3
• IMSE 991 - Advanced Topics in Decision Theory Credits: 3