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What is ISE at Illinois?

The Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (ISE) offers top-ranked degree programs that prepare students to design, analyze, and optimize complex systems across a broad range of industries. Our curricula provide exceptional depth in data analytics, operations research, human factors, design, and decision and control — uniting advanced computation, quantitative methods, and systems thinking.

ISE research connects foundational discovery with applied innovation, addressing emerging challenges in health technology, sustainability and resilience, supply networks, digital manufacturing, and human systems. By integrating engineering with data, decision-making, and design, ISE equips students and researchers to improve performance, efficiency, and adaptability across modern enterprises.