The goal of Industrial and Systems Engineering is to ensure that manufacturing or service organization systems are efficient, productive, safe, and well designed against cumulative injury, and that the systems incorporate the right tools and equipment. The Master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering curriculum, offered by the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, prepares engineers for these activities and helps achieve the goals of ISE in a manufacturing or service organization. It prepares students to bridge the gap between operations and management with courses ranging from operations planning and control, quality assurance and reliability, human factors and ergonomics, human-machine interaction, information engineering, and cost-effectiveness analysis, to organizational development and total quality management. It prepares students to enter the profession immediately or to enter a PhD program.