Welcome to the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) website! The ISE department offers both undergraduate (B.S.) and graduate (M.S., M.E.A., Ph.D.) programs.  A broad range of industrial engineering topics are covered, particularly in the areas of Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics, Management Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, and Operations Research.  Both the undergraduate and graduate programs are regularly included in U.S. News & World Report's annual listing of the Top 10 Industrial and Systems Engineering Departments in the nation. The undergraduate program is ranked #8, and the graduate program is #6 in 2017.

ISE News

Dr. Blake Johnson receives ICAT SEAD grant, CoE and SEC awards (June 18, 2018)

Dr. Alejhandro Salado receives grant for designing and implementing verification strategies in large-scale systems (June 14, 2018)

Dr. Eileen Van Aken named department head of industrial and systems engineering (June 8, 2018)

ISE faculty promotions and tenure among those approved by VT Board of Visitors (June 5, 2018)

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Announcements

Job Posting for Students page (last updated on June 20)

New! Textbooks for Summer I and II session are posted

Participants wanted for Driving Simulator study; Go to Doodle Survey for signing up (posted on April 23)

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Contact ISE

250 Durham Hall (MC 0118)
1145 Perry Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Phone: 540-231-6656
Fax:  540-231-3322