Our faculty engage in funded and unfunded research in a broad variety of areas closely related to the core of the Industrial Engineering discipline. These include engineering education, safety engineering, and others.
Engineering education research (EER) is the field of inquiry that creates knowledge that aims to inform and improve the education of engineers. It achieves this through research on topics such as: epistemology, policy, assessment, pedagogy, diversity,
ethics, innovative design, and global competency, as they pertain to engineering.
Safety engineering uses mathematical modeling to reduce the rates of injuries and catastrophic incidents in various domains, including oil and gas processing, specialty chemicals, power generation and distribution, and pharmaceuticals.
Faculty:Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Larry Shuman, Karen Bursic,
Joel Haight