ISyE拥有美国任何一所大学中最大的，单一课程的师资力量，并且以优化为主要研究专业领域。优化是在众多替代方案中寻求最佳行动的严格数学方法，是众多关键应用中的关键设计和操作工具。其中包括能源，金融，健康和制造系统，社交网络以及供应链。<br> <br>我们除了拥有庞大的规模外，还相信我们的优化师资队伍是世界上最好的人才队伍之一。我们采用最可靠的指标来评估研究质量，因此我们的优化师傅几乎没有同行。实际上，我们与优化相关的至少一名成员赢得了与优化相关的每项基于研究的重大荣誉和奖项。其中包括约翰·冯·诺依曼理论奖
ISyE boasts the largest, single-program concentration of faculty at any U.S. university with optimization as their primary area of research expertise. Optimization, the mathematically rigorous methodology for seeking a best action among a multitude of alternatives, is a key design and operational tool in numerous critical applications. These include energy, financial, health and manufacturing systems, social networks, and supply chains. In addition to being exceptionally large, we also believe that our optimization faculty is one of the very best, anywhere. Employing any credible metric for assessing research quality, our optimization faculty has few, if any, peers. Virtually every major research-based honor and award associated with optimization has been won by at least one member of our optimization faculty. This includes the John Von Neumann Theory Prize, the Dantzig Prize, the Fulkerson Prize, the Khachiyan Prize, and the Beale-Orchard-Hayes Prize. In addition, members of our optimization group have routinely held high-level editorial posts with the most prestigious journals prominently identified with optimization including Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Operations Research and SIAM Journal on Optimization.