工业工程博士学位课程为博士生提供了严格的学术准备，使其可以在学术界以及私人或公共部门任职。除了必修的课程外，学生还进行独立的研究，从而产生原创性的学术成果。我们的学生通常会利用UH校园的各种专业知识和资源，包括库伦工程学院其他部门以及决策和信息科学，数学和计算机科学系的知识和资源。研究领域包括传统IE领域的可靠性，设施位置和布局设计，自动化制造，安全，质量控制和项目管理，以及诸如大规模优化，统计分析，模拟，系统工程和启发式优化等主题。优秀的图书馆和计算机设施可用于支持教学和研究工作。
The PhD degree program in Industrial Engineering provides doctoral students with rigorous academic preparation for positions in both academia and the private or public sector. In addition to required coursework, students conduct independent research that results in original scholarly work. Areas of study range from the traditional IE domains of reliability, facility location and layout design, automated manufacturing, safety, quality control and project management to topics such as large scale optimization, statistical analysis, simulation, systems engineering and heuristic optimization. Excellent library and computing facilities are available to support both instructional and research work.