Principles of Engineering Management

IE 400 is the senior-year crash course in operations research and engineering economy: how to take a messy real-world decision — scheduling a project, allocating scarce resources, choosing between investments — and reduce it to a model you can actually solve. You'll spend the semester formulating LPs and integer programs, running simplex by hand before turning Excel or Xpress loose on bigger instances, building CPM/PERT networks, and working through cash-flow problems with interest, inflation, and taxes. It sits at the point where your math and IE coursework finally pay off as managerial tools, and the modeling habits you pick up here are what most IE electives and your eventual job will assume you already have.