Industrial Engineering and Management, PhD
Doctorate in Industrial Engineering and Management
Curriculum
For a student to be admitted into the PhD program, an IEM faculty member must champion their application. It is therefore encouraged that prospective PhD students contact IEM faculty before applying.
Degree Requirements
- 18 (or more) hours of dissertation research
- 30 (or more) hours of coursework
Research and Faculty
Chenang Liu is an Assistant Professor of IEM and focuses his research on engineering-oriented data science for the design, analytics, and operations of various complex engineering systems. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science & Technology (OCAST), and U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). His papers have appeared in the Nature Communications, Physics of Fluids, IISE Transactions, IEEE Transactions, ASME Journals, SME Journals, Annals of Operations Research, 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 is not required.
- TOEFL / IELTS / PTE scores are required for international students, except for those who have completed a baccalaureate or graduate degree from an accredited institution of higher learning, at which English is the primary language of instruction, located in a country in which English is a recognized primary language.
- 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.