Community, Opportunity and Engagement

The Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (ISE) Department values, supports, and encourages teaching, research, and service that benefit our community, that provide opportunities to all populations in the state, country, and the world, and that recruits, engages, and retains a wide set of stakeholders in engineering. This is achieved by respecting the individual freedoms of each of our students, staff and faculty members, and other community stakeholders, so long as they cannot negatively affect any other member of our department and our society.

These individual freedoms and choices are very broad and dynamic, so our department is committed to serve and engage with any society member, regardless of their age, belief system, caregiver status, cognitive style, culture, (dis)ability status, education, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, geographic background, job position and type, language, marital/partnered status, national origin, parental status, physical appearance, political affiliation, race, religious beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, theoretical perspective, and veteran status.

The ISE department is also committed to nurturing an atmosphere of mutual respect, collaboration, and understanding among its members’ very diverse professional preferences and pathways to attract, retain, grow, and promote outstanding educators, researchers, academic and non-academic staff, and students in all areas of industrial and systems engineering. This diversity of professional opportunity has been a key aspect of ISE since its inception as a department and remains a vantage point that our members continue to ensure and grow.