The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering offers a minor in Data Science and Engineering (DSCE) for undergraduates (minimum of 4 classes required). The minor contributes to students’ ability to organize, analyze and act upon data, particularly for data associated with engineered systems. The course of study will prepare students to combine techniques from systems engineering and data science to address global challenges. The core of this minor will be taught by industrial and systems engineers who use mathematical, computational, and data models to support decision-making on real problems.
Required courses for the DSCE Minor are:
- ISYE-4360 Applied Data Science. Credit hours: 4
OR
- ISYE-4370 Engineering Data Analytics. Credit hours: 4
AND
- ISYE-4330 Design of Experiments. Credit hours: 3
Students must also take a total of at least 2 courses from either or both of the following areas:
Data Quality and Architectures
- CSCI 4350 Data Science. Credit hours: 3
- CSCI 4370 Data and Society. Credit hours: 4
- CSCI 4380 Database Systems. Credit hours: 4
- CSCI 4390 Data Mining. Credit hours: 4
- ISYE 2530 Information and Data Systems. Credit hours: 4**
- ITWS 4350 Data Science. Credit hours: 3
- ITWS 4400 X-Informatics. Credit hours: 3
- MATP 4400 Introduction to Data Mathematics. Credit hours: 4*
Inference and Learning
- BIOL 4200 Biostatistics. Credit hours: 4
- BMED 4470 Biostatistics for Life Science Applications. Credit hours: 3
- BMED 4480 Biomedical Data Science. Credit hours: 4
- CSCI 4250 Frontiers of Network Science. Credit hours: 4*
- ECON 4570 Econometrics. Credit hours: 4*
- ISYE 4140 Statistical Analysis. Credit hours: 4**
- ISYE 4260 Human Performance Modeling and Support. Credit hours: 3*
- ISYE 4350 Systems Engineering and Social Media. Credit hours: 3*
- PSYC 4310 Research Methods and Statistics II. Credit hours: 4*
Other courses are subject to ISE Department approval. Students pursuing this minor must satisfy the prerequisites and/or corequisites as needed, which may involve additional course work
*IME Majors may not use this course as a Technical Elective.
**IME Majors may not use this course for the Minor.
Questions?
- Contact ISE Department at ise@rpi.edu.
How to Enroll?
- Submit the Minor Approval Form: