EMIS

EMIS Department Update

EMIS engineers better business. We develop innovative, problem-solving leaders with a broad systems view, technical expertise, and an understanding of operations and people. 

EMIS Degree Programs

  • Operations Research/Management Science (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) applies advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. Ranked in top 25 OR programs. 
  • Engineering Management (M.S.E.M., D.Engr.) develops expertise in managing technology-based projects and people in technical roles.
  • Information Engineering Management (M.S.I.E.M.) engineers and manages information flows by developing computing technology and management skills.
  • Systems Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.) creates and manages complex systems over their life cycle, using systems-engineering principles, methods and practices.
  • Also undergraduate Engineering Leadership courses and freshman IT service classes 

Students (Spring 2012)

  • EMIS majors: 505 with 97 undergraduate and 408 master and doctoral (+60 freshman)
  • Achieved gender parity in graduating seniors for last four years 
  • Credit hours: EMIS is 25% of Engineering total; 13% of undergraduate, 45% graduate 
  • Former students: Jerry Junkins, Gov. William Clements, Bobby Lyle

Undergraduate Placements 

  • Job placement area: consulting, aerospace, engineering, defense, healthcare, IT, entertainment, banking, telecommunications, military, research and analytics firms
  • Graduate/Law schools: Duke, Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Michigan, Northwestern, UT
  • Wider selection of opportunities than other engineering and business degrees

Faculty

  • Size: 6 permanent (1 full, 3 associate, 1 assistant) and 4 non-tenure-track; hiring one 
  • Outstanding instructors, including Lyle's only University Scholar / Teacher of the Year
  • Adjunct faculty: ~30 excellent, committed instructors teach 60% of classes 

Research

  • Develop models, algorithms, and software to optimize systems and operational problems involving $100Ms of revenues and costs for government and industry 
  • Specialties: optimization of telecom, military, and supply-chain networks; systems and process engineering; data analytics 
  • Research infrastructure requirements: high performance computing, workspace
  • External funding: $300,000 annually 

History

  • Degree programs date back to 1950 (EM), 1953 (OR), 1993 (SE), and 2002 (IEM)
  • Department established in 2001, from faculty in Computer Science and unaffiliated 
  • Since then EMIS has: started 50+ executive classes, grown enrollments 83%, and generated 26% of Lyle tuition revenue