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Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
313 S. W. Mudd, MC 4704
Phone: 212-854-2941
www.ieor.columbia.edu
Chair
Clifford Stein
326 S. W. Mudd
Director:
Administration,
Academic and
Professional
Development
Jenny S. Mak
324 S. W. Mudd
Student Affairs
Manager
Adina Berrios Brooks
Director:
Undergraduate
Programs
Garud Iyengar
Director: Master
of Science
Programs
Soulaymane Kachani
Director: Financial
Engineering
Program
Emanuel Derman
Director: Doctoral
Programs
Daniel Bienstock
Director:
Executive
Education
Soulaymane Kachani
Professors
Daniel Bienstock
Mark Broadie,
Business School
Edward M. Coffman Jr.,
Electrical Engineering
Emanuel Derman
Awi Federgruen,
Business School
Guillermo Gallego
Paul Glasserman,
Business School
Donald Goldfarb
Garud Iyengar
Iannis Karatzas,
Mathematics
Peter J. Kolesar,
Business School
S. G. Steven Kou
Karl Sigman
Clifford Stein
M. Suresh Sundaresan,
Business School
Garrett van Ryzin,
Business School
Ward Whitt
Vlihalis Yannakakis,
Computer Science
David D. Yao
Associate
Professors
Maria Chudnovsky
Rama Cont
Soulaymane Kachani
Jay Sethuraman
Assistant
Professors
Jose Blanchet
Vineet Goyal
Xuedong He
Tim Leung
Mariana Olvera-Cravioto
Van Anh Truong
Lecturers in
Discipline
Martin Haugh
Anthony Webster
Adjunct Faculty
David DeRosa
Leon S. Gold
David Gulley
Mark Higgins
Ali Hirsa
Iraj Kani
Alexander Kuznetsov
William J. Latzko
Michael D. Lipkin
Hanan Luss
Allan Malz
Peter V. Norden
Lucius J. Riccio
Moshe Rosenwein
Ali Sadighian
Alexander Stanton
Leon Tatevossian
Leo Tilman
Sheldon Weinig
Larry Wright
Industrial engineering is the branch
of the engineering profession that
is concerned with the design,
analysis, and control of production and
service systems. Originally, an industrial
engineer worked in a manufacturing
plant and was involved only with the
operating efficiency of workers and
machines. Today, industrial engineers
are more broadly concerned with
productivity and all of the technical
problems of production management
and control. They may be found in every
kind of organization: manufacturing,
distribution, transportation, mercantile,
and service. Their responsibilities range
from the design of unit operations to
that of controlling complete production
and service systems. Their jobs involve
the integration of the physical, financial,
economic, computer, and human
components of such systems to attain
specified goals. Industrial engineering
includes activities such as production
planning and control; quality control;
inventory, equipment, warehouse, and
materials management; plant layout;
and workstation design.
Operations research is concerned with
quantitative decision problems, generally
involving the allocation and control of
limited resources. Such problems arise,
for example, in the operations of industrial
firms, financial institutions, health care
organizations, transportation systems,
and government. The operations
research analyst develops and uses
mathematical and statistical models to
help solve these decision problems. Like
engineers, they are problem formulators
and solvers. Their work requires the
formation of a mathematical model of a
system and the analysis and prediction
of the consequences of alternate modes
of operating the system. The analysis
may involve mathematical optimization
techniques, probabilistic and statistical
methods, experiments, and computer
simulations.
Management Science and Engineering
(also known as Engineering Management
Systems) is a multidisciplinary field
in industrial engineering, operations
research, contemporary technology,
business, economics, and management.
It provides a foundation for decision
making and managing risks in complex
systems.
Financial engineering is a
multidisciplinary field integrating financial
theory with economics, methods of
engineering, tools of mathematics,
and practice of programming. The
field provides training in the application
of engineering methodologies and
quantitative methods to finance.
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