Engineering PhD: Industrial Engineering PhD
UWM’s doctoral program in Engineering offers a concentration in Industrial Engineering. This flexible program allows you to develop a study plan tailored to meet your needs. Your plan will be evaluated based on its appropriateness as an industrial engineering pursuit, course availability and the availability of a qualified College of Engineering & Applied Science faculty member to serve as your major professor.
Your chosen area of specialization will be the subject of your doctoral dissertation. When you graduate, you will have marked scholarship in the broad field of industrial engineering as well as a distinguished critical or creative achievement in your chosen specialization.
Many courses are offered in the late afternoon or evening, so you will have the option of completing much of the program on a part-time basis.
Program Type
Doctoral
Program Format
On Campus
Career Outlook
Employment of industrial engineers is expected to rise by 10% from 2019-2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A PhD is often required for research & development positions and management jobs.
UWM’s graduates of this program have pursued careers with:
- Amgen
- Nokia
- Tennessee Technological University
- University of Sharjah
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
What to Expect
Many courses are offered in the late afternoon or evening, so you will have the option of completing much of the program on a part-time basis.
Many students earn Teaching Assistantships (TAs), Research Assistantships (RAs) or Fellowships during their graduate study which helps to fund their education while also building leadership skills. Assistantships decisions are made by the academic departments only after an applicant has been accepted to the program.
More Information
Contact the College of Engineering & Applied Science Graduate Programs Office.
We’re a top tier R1 research university and our industrial engineering students have the opportunity to work with faculty members engaged in cutting-edge research in areas such as:
- Industrial ergonomics
- Lean manufacturing
- Logistics
- Material handling & distribution
- Occupational biomechanics
- Real-time resource management
- Systems design modeling
- Predictive analytics
- Process and systems optimization
Research Labs
As an R1 research institution, research is integral to our work at UWM and to the experience of students pursuing graduate degrees. Our college has a wide range of faculty-led labs that perform cutting edge research. Please see the Faculty tab to the right for the specific research interests and labs of each civil and environmental engineering faculty member. For a full list of our college’s research labs, centers and institutes, click here.
Faculty
- Assistant Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
- akundivy@uwm.edu
- Engineering & Mathematical Sciences 990A
- Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
- Geospatial Data Science Lab
- rghose@uwm.edu
- Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
- Scientist II, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
- gongd@uwm.edu
- Engineering & Mathematical Sciences E371J
- Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Department Chair, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
- jang@uwm.edu
- 414-229-2978
- Engineering & Mathematical Sciences E357
- Teaching Faculty 1, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Lab Manager
- khani@uwm.edu
- 414-251-7864
- Engineering and Mathematical Sciences E173
- Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Co-Director (Co-PI), UWM Industrial Assessment Center
- Director, NSF/S-STEM: Preparing Engineers Computer Scientists
- otieno@uwm.edu
- 414-229-3134
- Engineering and Mathematical Sciences 1161
- Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- mattpete@uwm.edu
- 414-229-3448
- Engineering and Mathematical Sciences 367
- Dean, Engineering & Applied Science Office of the Dean
- petersba@uwm.edu
- 414-229-4126
- Engineering and Mathematical Sciences 520
- Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- seifoddi@uwm.edu
- 414-229-4442
- Engineering and Mathematical Sciences 306
Advising
- Advisor, Graduate Programs
- Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Health Informatics
- crary@uwm.edu
- 414-229-7267
- Engineering & Mathematical Sciences E379
- Advisor, Graduate Programs
- Civil/Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
- rpackard@uwm.edu
- 414-251-8543
- Engineering & Mathematical Sciences E379
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Street Address
College of Engineering & Applied Science
3200 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Mailing Address
College of Engineering & Applied Science
P.O. Box 784
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0784