Departments
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Improve the World
Help figure out strategic and technical solutions to reduce costs, improve quality and increase productivity across a variety of industries, such as healthcare, logistics, manufacturing and service.
Optimize Your Future
Make your future better so you can make the world better. Study industrial and systems engineering at Mizzou, a collaborative campus where you’ll have numerous research and leadership opportunities.
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Choose Your Future
Embark on your journey by earning an industrial engineering degree from Mizzou and work 1:1 with faculty and develop leadership skills that will set you up for a successful career. Through mentorship and opportunities to collaborate across disciplines, students unlock solutions to real-world problems.
Hear from our Students
What does the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering have to offer? According to our students, a lot. Hear it from them on how you can expect a degree in industrial engineering to launch you into an amazing career.
Meet Industry Leaders
What do industrial engineers do and where do they work? Hear from some of our most esteemed Mizzou Made graduates about how an industrial engineering degree prepared them for success.
“I love the professors here. They are all extremely nice and helpful and very knowledgeable. I love that there’s a wide variety of classes. It’s a great place to be.”
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Mizzou Engineering students tackle real-world problems through the Missouri Method, including senior capstone projects. This semester, projects included creating new medical dispensers, optimizing production flows, and designing a blue hydrogen plant.
Ben Ennis, Miles Kousoulas, Mohammad Mayyal and Brian Oster optimized Schneider Electric’s overall production flow.
Mizzou Engineer Sharan Srinivas is improving freight and fuel truck operations at the Port of Alaska through cutting-edge simulation modeling and the development of an innovative digital communication platform.
This year marks 100 years since the industrial engineering program was established at Mizzou. Since then, the program has graduated successful engineers and leaders across industries.
ABET Accreditation
The University of Missouri program, B.S. Industrial Engineering, is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET (www.abet.org), under the General Criteria and Program Criteria for Industrial and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.