Facts & Figures

Degrees offered

Industrial and Operations Engineering | BSE, MSE, PhD

Degrees granted, academic year 2015-2016

• 203 BSE
• 96 MS/MSE
• 14 PhD degrees

Fall 2016 enrollments

• 232 graduate students (76 PhD students and 156 MS students)
• 490 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and seniors)

Ph.D. student support (this term)

• 36 graduate student research assistants
• 26 internal fellowships
• 9 graduate student instructors
• 3 NSF fellowships
• 2 NIOSH trainees

Faculty

• 33 tenured and tenure track faculty
• 11 assistant, 6 associate, 16 full professors
• 6 emeritus faculty, 9 adjunct faculty, 7 Post Doc Fellows
• 6 National Academy of Engineering members
• 1 National Academy of Medicine member
• 5 NSF Career Award winners
• 1 PECASE award winner
• 11 INFORMS Fellows
  • Mark Daskin, President (2006)
  • Brian Denton, President (2017)
  • Steven Pollack, President of ORSA (1986)
• 7 IISE Fellows
  • Marlin Thomas, President (2001)
• 3 HFES Fellows
• 2 AAAS Fellows
• 2 AIHA Fellows
• 2 AIMBE Fellows
• 2 ASB Fellows
  • Don Chaffin, President (1988)
  • Richard Hughes, President (2013)
• 2 ASME Fellows
• 2 ASQ Fellows
• 2 ESGB Fellows
• 2 SAE Fellows
• 1 AAAI Fellow
• 1 AME Hall of Fame member
• 1 APA Fellow
• 1 APS Fellow
• 1 ASA Fellow
• 1 IEHF Fellow
• 1 IES Fellow
• 1 IMS Fellow
• 1 MSOM Fellow
• 1 POMS Fellow
• 1 AUPOHS Past-President
  • Don Chaffin, President (1982)

• Staff

  • 1 Candace J. Johnson Award for Staff Excellence Recipient
    • Candy Ellis, 2013
  • 11 Excellence in Staff Service Awardees

  Students (last 5 years)

  • 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 management
  • Ergonomics, human performance and occupational safety
  • 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

  • $3.9M research expenditures, fiscal year 2016

  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