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The Role of Decision Analysis in Industrial and Systems Engineering Education

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This paper provides a pilot study on the discrepancy between current Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) university programs and industry requirements. A summary of an interview series conducted with subject matter experts in ISE emphasizes the need for more instruction of decision analysis in ISE curricula. According to the analysis of the ten top-ranked ISE graduate and undergraduate programs in the USA, less than 20% of the ISE programs and specializations have core classes in decision making and decision analysis. The results of the interview series and the analysis of university ISE programs illustrate the need for more decision analysis education both in undergraduate and graduate ISE education.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation awards CMMI 16-29752, CMMI 15-65168, and CMMI 16-44991. The views in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Science Foundation or the Federal Government.

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  1. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ali E. Abbas & Maximilian Zellner

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  1. Systems Architecting and Engineering Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Azad M. Madni

  2. Center for Systems and Software Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Barry Boehm

  3. Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Roger G. Ghanem

  4. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Daniel Erwin

  5. Systems Engineering Fellow, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California, USA

    Marilee J. Wheaton

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Abbas, A.E., Zellner, M. (2018). The Role of Decision Analysis in Industrial and Systems Engineering Education. In: Madni, A., Boehm, B., Ghanem, R., Erwin, D., Wheaton, M. (eds) Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62217-0_77

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