Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

University of California, Berkeley

Overview

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) educates students to become highly skilled in the quantitative modeling and analysis of a broad array of systems-level decision problems, such as:

  • Economic efficiency, productivity, and quality
  • The collection and analysis of data using a database and decision-support tools; the comprehensive modeling of uncertainty
  • The development and creative use of analytical and computational methods for solving these problems

Students obtain the broader skills, background, and knowledge necessary to be effective professionals in a rapidly-changing global economy. The department's mission includes creating knowledge that advances the state of the art in optimization, stochastic modeling and simulation, and the application of these tools to important societal systems.

IEOR students and faculty members are actively engaged in a variety of research projects that have made and continue to make important contributions to both the theory and practice of operations research and industrial engineering. Some of the research areas represented in the IEOR department are the analysis of algorithms, automation and robotics, combinatorics and integer programming, convex optimization, financial engineering, inventory theory, risk analysis, robust optimization, queueing theory, supply chain management, scheduling, and simulation.

Undergraduate Programs

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research: BS (offered through the College of Engineering), Minor
Operations Research and Management Science: BA (offered through the College of Letters and Science)

Graduate Programs

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research: MSA, MEng, MS, and PhD

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Courses

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Contact Information

Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

4141 Etcheverry Hall

Phone: 510-642-5484

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Undergraduate Department Chair

Alper Atamturk

423 Sutardja Dai Hall

Phone: 510-642-4559

atamturk@berkeley.edu

Head Undergraduate Faculty Advisor

Anil Aswani

4119 Etcheverry Hall

aaswani@berkeley.edu

Undergraduate Student Affairs Officer

Ginnie Sadil

Phone: 510-642-5485

ieor-student-services@berkeley.edu

Engineering Student Services Advisor

Nicole Rucinski

230 Bechtel Eng Cntr

http://engineering.berkeley.edu/ESS

nicoler@berkeley.edu

Graduate Department Chair

Zuo-Jun "Max" Shen

4129 Etcheverry Hall

Phone: 510-643-2392

maxshen@berkeley.edu

Head Graduate Advisor

Dorit S. Hochbaum

4181 Etcheverry Hall

Phone: 510-642-4998

hochbaum@ieor.berkeley.edu

MEng Graduate Student Affairs Officer

Yerdua (Yeri) Caesar-Kaptoech

4137 Etcheverry Hall

Phone: 510-642-7983

ycaesark@berkeley.edu

MS & PhD Graduate Student Affairs Officer

Phone: 510-642-5485

ieor-student-services@berkeley.edu

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