Facts & Figures

Degrees offered

Industrial and Operations Engineering | BSE, MSE, PhD

Degrees granted, academic year 2016-2017

• 214 BSE
• 96 MS/MSE
• 26 PhD degrees

Fall 2017 enrollments

• 229 graduate students (73 PhD students and 156 MS students)
• 460 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and seniors)

Ph.D. student support (this term)

• 34 graduate student research assistants
• 26 internal fellowships
• 16 graduate student instructors
• 5 NSF fellowships
• 2 NIOSH trainees

Faculty

• 29 tenured and tenure track faculty
• 6 assistant, 6 associate, 17 full professors
• 8 full emeritus faculty, 1 associate emeritus, 9 adjunct faculty, 9 Post Doc Fellows
• National Academys
  • 6 National Academy of Engineering members
  • 1 National Academy of Medicine member
• Hall of Fame
  • 1 AME Hall of Fame member
• Fellows
  • 11 INFORMS Fellows
  • 7 IISE Fellows
  • 4 HFES Fellows
  • 2 AAAS Fellows
  • 2 AIHA Fellows
  • 2 AIMBE Fellows
  • 2 ASB Fellows
  • 2 ASME Fellows
  • 2 ASQ Fellows
  • 2 ESGB Fellows
  • 2 SAE Fellows
  • 1 AAAI Fellow
  • 1 AMA Fellow
  • 1 APA Fellow
  • 1 APS Fellow
  • 1 ASA Fellow
  • 1 IEHF Fellow
  • 1 IES Fellow
  • 1 IMS Fellow
  • 1 MSOM Fellow
  • 1 POMS Fellow
• Career Awards
  • 5 NSF Career Award winners
  • 1 PECASE award winner
  • 1 DoE Early Career Award winner
• 1 AUPOHS Past-President

Staff

• 1 Candace J. Johnson Award for Staff Excellence Recipient
• 11 Excellence in Staff Service Awardees

Students (last 5 years)

• 7 NSF Fellowships
• 1 International Bonder Scholar
• 3 MICDE Fellowships
• 5 Bonder Fellowships
• 4 Joel and Lorraine Brown GSI of the Year
• 4 Murty Prize
• 4 Wilson Prize
• 2 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement
• 2 Towner Prize for Outstanding GSIs
• 1 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
• 1 Rackham Outstanding GSI award
• 1 Rackham International Research award
• 1 Outstanding Graduate Student
• 1 Scheller Fellowship
• 1 North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Award
• 1 CoE Undergraduate Student Distinguished Leadership Award
• 1 CoE Graduate Student Distinguished Leadership Award
• 1 CoE Undergraduate Distinguished Achievement Award

Instructional and Research Areas

• Analytics
• Applications
• Engineering education
• Engineering management
• Ergonomics, human performance and occupational safety
• Financial engineering
• Health systems engineering
• Industrial Operations
• Information Systems
• Operations Research
• Optimization
• Production / distribution/ logistics
• Quality & Applied Statistics
• Risk Management
• Stochastic modeling
• Energy Systems
• Transportation
• Urban Systems

Research funding

• $5.1M research expenditures, fiscal year 2017

Research facilities

• Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety
• Center for Ergonomics
• Tauber Institute for Global Operations
• S. M. Wu Manufacturing Research Center
• U-M Transportation Research Institute