Program Educational Objectives | NC State ISE
Program Educational Objectives
Alumni of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Program will achieve careers of technical excellence and demonstrate professional leadership in the workplace and society through:
- Applying the discipline’s body of knowledge to the design and management of systems, products and processes by optimizing performance with multiple constraints and conflicting objectives while evaluating the importance of time, cost, and quality.;
- Leading and collaborating on teams in the workplace while assessing the economic, societal, and ethical impacts and communicating effectively with all stakeholders; and
- Adapting to changes in technology and our global society through continuous learning.
The Program Educational Objectives have been developed with close attention to their consistency with and support of the declared missions of the Department, College, and University. The relationship between the PEOs and these various missions is illustrated in the table below.
Statements | PEO 1: Applying the discipline’s body | PEO 2: Contributing meaningfully… | PEO 3: Adapting to changes in technology and our global society…and continuous learning… |
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University Mission Statement | “Enhancing its historic strengths in agriculture, science, and engineering….” “...mastery of fundamentals, intellectual discipline, creativity, problem solving, and responsibility.” | “...intellectual, cultural, social, economic, and technological development within the state, the nation, and the world.” | “...North Carolina State University provides leadership for intellectual, cultural, social, economic, and technological development within the state, the nation, and the world.” |
College Mission Statement | “...empowering significant advances in technology…” | “...empowering significant advances in technology…” | “...driving economic development for the welfare of the state, the nation, and the world.” |
Department Mission Statement | To educate students in a broad range of areas that include engineering design, physical as well as engineering sciences, mathematics and the analytical problem-solving skills necessary to the successful practice of industrial engineering. | To educate students in a broad range of areas that include engineering design, physical as well as engineering sciences, mathematics and the analytical problem-solving skills necessary to the successful practice of industrial engineering. | Graduates will be prepared for employment as industrial engineers in industry, service, consulting and/or government organizations, or for advanced study at leading graduate schools in engineering, business, management or other fields. Graduates from this program will be effective at oral and written communication. |