The Operations Research / Industrial Engineering Group, OR/IE, is a major technical area within the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Program has been in existence since 1963. It is a strictly graduate program consisting of 6 faculty members and 70 full-time students (about 47 MS and 23 PhD).

Operations Research is a mathematical science concerned with optimal decision making and modeling of deterministic and probabilistic systems. Its focus and field of application are interdisciplinary, embracing a range of quantitative techniques with components in economics, computer science, and systems theory.

Similarly, Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of persons, material, and equipment.

The practice of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering addresses both the performance objectives and the resource constraints of an organization and works toward establishing policies that are the most beneficial to the organization as a whole. Related problems may be as specific as improving the efficiency of a production line or as broad as developing a long-range corporate strategy involving a combination of financial, marketing, and technological concerns.

 

 

Operations Research / Industrial Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Cockrell School of Engineering | The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C2200 | Austin TX 78712-0292 | Phone: 512-471-1336 | Fax: 512-232-1489 | Email: orie@me.utexas.edu
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