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Doctoral Studies in Operations Research
Doctoral study in operations research is available through the Ph.D. in Information Technology program, which offers advanced courses in this discipline. The doctoral program allows the student to take a broad range of courses and research options. Students may designate a concentration in operations research in their doctoral degree title. In that case the degree conferred upon a graduating student would be Ph.D. in Information Technology with Concentration in Operations Research. Students may also pursue doctoral studies in Information Technology without designating a concentration.
Note
Effective Fall 08 applications to the Concentration in Systems Engineering
within the PhD in
Information Technology have been discontinued. Students may either apply
to the PhD in Systems Engineering and Operations
Research or apply to the Phd In Information Technology with no
specified` concentration.
Requirements
Students seeking an operations research concentration must satisfy all
the requirements
for the Ph.D.degree
in Information Technology. As part of their application they must submit the GRE scores. In addition, the following
requirements
must be met.
Admissions
Students are normally admitted with an M.S. degree in
operations research, systems engineering, or some related engineering or information technology area.
Plan
of Study
All decisions concerning the student's course requirements and
plan of
study must be approved by the advisor/director, with the consent
of the
department's doctoral coordinator.
Doctoral
Supervisory Committee
The chair of the committee should be selected from the list of
approved
chairs of the SEOR department. The dissertation director must be
a member
of the SEOR department. The doctoral supervisory committee must
include
at least three members from the SEOR department. The composition
of the
doctoral supervisory committee is to be approved by the doctoral
coordinator.
Permission for the comprehensive examination and the
dissertation defense
are requested from the IT&E associate dean on the basis of a
written
request and plan that has been approved by the supervisory
committee and
the department’s doctoral coordinator.
Qualifying Examinations
Each student must take a set of four exams from three different
degree
programs from the following course list:
OR 541 Deterministic Models in Operations Research
OR 542 Stochastic Models in Operations Research
SYST 520 System Design and Integration
SYST 573 Decision and Risk Analysis
STAT 544 Applied Probability
STAT 554 Applied Statistics
Advanced
Emphasis Requirement
For students concentrating in operations research, at least 18 of
the 24 credits in the advanced emphasis requirement must either be in
OR courses numbered 600 or higher or in IT courses with an OR designation.
All exceptions to this rule must be approved by the
student’s doctoral supervisory committee and the
department's doctoral coordinator. The doctoral supervisory committee and the
associate dean for graduate studies and research of IT&E must approve the
overall plan of study. A list of IT courses with an OR
designation is available here.
