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Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern focuses on optimizing and solving real world global challenges such as healthcare systems, energy systems, and resilience systems.
The Master of Science in Industrial Engineering applies mathematical modeling and analytical tools to make better decisions for designing and managing efficient and effective systems. Industrial Engineering is applied in many areas, including healthcare systems, supply chains, logistics and transportation engineering, manufacturing, sustainability, resilient systems, energy systems, and human-in-the loop systems.
Beyond Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, this department also offers other master's programs including Data Analytics Engineering, Human Factors, Operations Research, Energy Systems, and Robotics. As a student in any of these programs, you will work with world- renowned faculty to achieve research experience and your career goals.
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Spring: December 1
R1 research institution
Students have the opportunity to gain valuable research experience working alongside highly accomplished faculty. The College of Engineering has 17 research centers and institutes, such as the Center for High Rate Nanomanufacturing and the Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute, as well as many faculty laboratories.
Experience powered learning
Northeastern combines rigorous academics with experiential learning to prepare students for real world engineering challenges. Through our cooperative education (co-op) program, students gain industry experience in a wide variety of organizations, while helping to finance their education. Past co-op partners have included: Tesla, Bose, Mathworks, Wayfair and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.? ?
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 300,000-plus alumni, and 3,000 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions-oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.