Operations Research

Degrees Offered:
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Operations Research 

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GRADUATE FACULTY

Director of Graduate Programs:
T. J. Hodgson, Box 7906, 9195155194, hodgson@ncsu.edu, Industrial Engineering

A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor:  S. D. Roberts
Bank of America Distinguished University Professor:  R. B. Handfield
Clifton A. Anderson Distinguished Professor:  R. Uzsoy
Distinguished University Professor:  M. A. Rappa
Drexel Professor of Mathematics:  C. T. Kelley
Edward P. Fitts Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering:  R. E. King
James T. Ryan Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Furniture Manufacturing:  T. J. Hodgson
Lampe Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering:  M. B. Steer
Walter Clark Professor of Industrial Engineering:  S. C. Fang
William Neal Reynolds Professor:  Z. Zeng

Professors: D. H. Anderson, J. W. Baugh, R. H. Bernhard, B. Bhattacharyya, P. Bloomfield, E. D. Brill, S. L. Campbell, M. Devetsikiotis, B. L. Edge, Y. Fathi, R. E. Hartwig, I. Ipsen, K. Ito, Z. Li, G. F. List, L. A. Martin, N. G. Medhin, C. Meyer, A. Nilsson, H. G. Perros, K. H. Pollock, S. Ranjithan, J. P. Roise, G. Rouskas, C. D. Savage, M. P. Singh, R. C. Smith, M. F. Stallmann, W. J. Stewart, J. R. Stone, M. W. Suh, H. T. Tran, I. Viniotis, M. A. Vouk, J. R. Wilson, F. Wu, R. E. Young; Research Professors: D. L. Lubkeman; Adjunct Professors: J. T. Betts, S. M. Hsiang; Emeritus Professors: J. W. Bishir, J. C. Dunn, H. J. Gold, D. M. Holthausen, D. F. McAllister; Emeritus Distinguished University Professors: S. E. Elmaghraby; Associate Professors: K. A. Barletta, R. Y. Chirkova, S. Ghoshal, P. L. Hersh, J. S. Ivy, J. A. Joines, M. J. Kang, M. G. Kay, N. Lu, T. Pang, T. W. Reiland, N. F. Samatova, J. S. Scroggs, C. E. Smith, W. Wang, D. P. Warsing, T. Yu, D. V. Zenkov; Research Associate Professors: J. Taheri; Adjunct Associate Professors: B. Denton; Emeritus Associate Professors: T. L. Honeycutt; Assistant Professors: M. Liu, Y. Liu; Teaching Professors: H. L. Nuttle

Fields of Graduate Instruction - Operations Research

Operations research is a graduate program of an interdisciplinary nature, governed by an administrative board and the program committee, and administered through the office of the program co-directors.

Admission Requirements: Applications are accepted from undergraduate majors in engineering and in physical and mathematical sciences who meet prerequisites in calculus and matrix-linear algebra, computer science, and statistics. GRE scores are required of all new applicants.

Master's Degree Requirements: The Master of Operations Research degree is a terminal graduate degree for students who seek careers as OR practitioners in either the private or public sector. The M.S. degree is designed to prepare students for careers in research and development.

Doctoral Degree Requirements: The Ph.D. degree is intended for students to be research scientists in industry or teachers and researchers in academia. This degree requires 72 credit hours of course and research work beyond the Bachelor's degree. Undergraduate students with superior credentials may apply directly to the doctoral program and bypass the Master's degree. For students who have completed the Master's degree, typically 30 to 36 hours of additional course work are required. A departmental written qualifying examination is required. Please consult the Operations Research website for more details of degree requirements.

Student Financial Support: Both teaching and research assistantships are available to qualified applicants. Award priority is given to Ph.D. then M.S. applicants. Outstanding students who are U.S. citizens and who shall be enrolled in the NC State Graduate School for the first time are eligible for the Engineering Dean's Graduate Fellowship Program.

Click on Graduate Courses for current course information.

Suggested Cognate Courses:  Cognate courses are courses that are often included in OR programs of study, but which carry other departmental designations. They cover subject matter closely related to OR and provide additional insight into the theory or application of OR methodology. Students may include cognate courses in their programs of study with the consent of their faculty advisor.

BMA(MA,ST) 771, 772 Biomathematics I, II
CE 775 Modeling and Analysis of Environmental Systems
CHE 525 Chemical Process Control
CSC 505 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CSC(MA) 580 Numerical Analysis I
CSC(ECE) 779 Advanced Computer Performance Modeling
CSC(MA) 780 Numerical Analysis II
ECE 516 System Control Engineering
ECE 521 Digital Computer Technology and Design
ECG (ST) 561 Intermediate Econometrics
ECG 750 Economic Decision Theory
ECG(ST) 751 Econometrics
ECG(ST) 752 Topics in Econometrics
ISE 723 Production Planning, Scheduling and Inventory Control
ISE 747 Reliability Engineering
ISE 748 Quality Engineering
ISE 861 The Design of Production Systems
MA 515 Analysis I
MA 523 Linear Transformations and Matrix Theory
MA(ST) 546 Theory of Probability
MA(CSC) 580, 780 Numerical Analysis I, II
MA 715 Functional Analysis I
MA 716 Advanced Functional Analysis
MA 723 Theory of Matrices and Applications
MA(ST) 746 Introduction to Stochastic Processes
MA(ST) 778, 779 Measure Theory and Advanced Probability
MA 798 Special Topics in Numerical Analysis
ST 515, 516 Experimental Statistics for Engineers I, II
ST 730 Applied Time Series Analysis
ST 782, 783 Time Series Analysis I, II
ST 785 Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory

NCSU Graduate Catalog