Industrial Engineering and Management, PhD
Doctorate in Industrial Engineering and Management
Curriculum
The School of IEM matches incoming PhD students based on their stated interest with a "faculty Champion" whom we expect will serve both as the research advisor and committee chair.
Degree Requirements
- 3 hours of IEM Doctoral Seminar
- 6 hours of research tools and methods
- 18 (or more) hours of dissertation research
- 30 (or more) hours of coursework (including IEM Doctoral Seminar and Research Tools
and Methods
Research and Faculty
Austin Buchanan is an Associate Professor of IEM and focuses his research on solving combinatorial optimization problems in networks, particularly those having connectivity or distance constraints. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation (including an NSF CAREER award), and his papers have appeared in the journals Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Networks, among others.
Admissions
The deadline for applying for admission with IEM is September 1st for spring admission and February 1st for fall admission.
Further admission requirements are:
- PhD applicants with a master's degree must have a minimum master's GPA of 3.5.
- PhD applicants without a master's degree must have a minimum 3.5 undergraduate GPA.
- GRE scores are required, except for applicants graduating with a 3.5 or above cumulative GPA from any economics, engineering, technology, and science based undergraduate program at OSU or any ABET- accredited program, where the primary language of instruction is English.
- International applicants whose native language is not English must submit TOEFL scores with a minimum of 79 iBT or equivalent.
- Applicants must also submit three letters of recommendation, a statement of professional goals and research interests (no more than three pages), and a current vitae/resume.