American University of Beirut

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management offers an undergraduate degree program leading to a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Engineering Management.

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

Major: Industrial Eng​​ineering (IE)

The Industrial Engineering Program extends over a four-year period and is offered exclusively on a daytime, on-campus basis. The program is offered in eleven terms whereby eight terms are 16- week Fall/Spring terms given over four years, and three terms are eight-week summer terms taken during the first three years of the program. In the summer term of the third year (Term IX), students are required to participate in a practical training program with a local, regional or international organization. The entire program is equivalent to five academic years but is completed in four calendar years with three summer terms.

Program Mission

The mission of the Industrial Engineering program is to graduate students who assume leadership positions in the industrial engineering profession and excel in graduate education. Our graduates are sought to be lifelong learners that contribute to the wellbeing of Lebanon and the region.

Program Educational Objectives

Graduates of the IE program will be able to:

• assume key roles in a range of industries that use industrial engineering, including manufacturing and service.
• effectively participate in, coordinate and manage diverse teams of engineers and analysts, especially in large-scale systems.
• pursue advanced degrees in industrial engineering and other related fields at reputable regional and international universities.
• appreciate the importance of professional ethics and actively use their knowledge and experience to the benefit of the community.
  

IE Program Learning Outcomes

Upon graduation, IE students will be able to demonstrate: 

• an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering to model, optimize and evaluate integrated systems of people, technology and information.
• an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.
• an ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability and sustainability.
• an ability to function on multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• an ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems and to develop integrated solutions to large-scale, sociotechnical problems through quantitative models.
• an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
• an ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
• the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.
• recognition of the need for, and ability to engage in, lifelong learning.
• knowledge of contemporary issues.
• an ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
  

Program Requirements

The BE curriculum in Industrial Engineering is a four-year program (with three summers) consisting of 143 credit hours of coursework.

The IE curriculum is supported by four pillars: 

a) basic science courses, b) general education courses, c) basic business courses and d) general engineering fundamental courses

The specific course requirements are as follows:

• Basic Science Courses: MATH 201, MATH 202, MATH 218/219, MATH 251, STAT 230, PHYS 210, PHYS 210L, CHEM 201/202, CHEM 203, BIOL 210
• General Education Requirements: 9 credits in Cultures and Histories (including one History of Ideas), 3 credits in Human Values, 6 credits in Societies and Individuals, 6 credits in Understanding Communication - English: ENGL 203 and ENGL 206, and 3 credits in Understanding Communication - Arabic. Students must also take a course in Community-Engaged Learning. One elective should cover the theme of Social Inequalities
• Basic Business Courses: MNGT 215, ACCT 210, MKTG 210
• Engineering Fundamentals: CIVE 210, MECH 220, MECH 230, EECE 210, EECE 230, MECH 421

The IE courses are distributed in three core areas:

a) Operations Research, b) Engineering Management and c) Production Systems. 

Curriculum

The 12-credit technical electives requirement should consist of (i) 6-9 credits from the graduate courses offered by the IEM Department, (ii) 0-3 credits from outside the IEM Department and (iii) 3 credits from sciences.

Minor in Engineering Management

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management offers a minor in Engineering Management that can be pursued by undergraduate Engineering and Architecture students, as well as by students from related majors, starting as early as the fall term of their third year of enrollment. Only students who have a cumulative GPA of 2.3 or more are eligible to apply for the minor. To satisfy the requirements of this minor, a student (GPA: 2.3 or more) must earn 18 credits of coursework from the IEM Department course offerings as follows:

• 9 credits from the undergraduate (Industrial Engineering) courses offered by the IEM Department, which must include INDE 301 Engineering Economy.
• 9 credits from either the undergraduat​e or the graduate (Engineering Management) courses offered by the IEM Department.
• A minimum grade of C+ is required for a course to be counted toward the fulfillment of a minor in Engineering Management. Additionally, a cumulative average of B (GPA 3.0) or above in all minor courses is required.

Course D​escription

• Industrial Engineering and Management ​Courses​​