Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
DOCTORAL PLAN OF STUDY
Wichita State University
Graduate School
1845 Fairmount
Wichita KS 67206-0004
(316) 978-3095
This form is a guide that officially defines your doctoral degree program.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY:
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Verify that information is true and accurate.
Contact Adviser for necessary revisions.
Complete requirements per currently approved plan.
 REVISION (changes to approved plan)
ORIGINAL PLAN (first submission)
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Name:
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Phone:
Address: 123 abs st Apt 5, Wichita, KS, 67220
myWSU ID:
Major:
Minor:
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Industrial engineering
Manufacturing engineering
IMPORTANT 
GRADUATION requires the online submission of an APPLICATION FOR DEGREE/$15.00 fee.
VIEW THE DEADLINES: www.wichita.edu/gradschool. Look for: Forms & Publications → Degree Completion Forms
College/Universities Attended
Year of Graduation
Wichita State University Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Oklahoma State University Industrial Engineering
2012
2014
Degree Earned
BS
MS
Title of Master’s Thesis: Optimal Design of Shocker Mobile
Pre-requisites
Topic: IME 255
Topic:
Date: Fall 2015
Date:
Topic:
Topic:
PhD Program Milestones
Date (expected Sem/yr if unknown)
Preliminary Exam
Qualifying-Major Exam
Qualifying-Minor Exam
Dissertation Proposal Exam
Dissertation Oral Defense Exam
1/15/2015
9/16/2015
9/16/2015
Fall 2016
Spring 2018
Professional/Scholarly/Integrity Training:
 COMPLETED
Memo:  previously sent
Date:
Date:
 attached here.
Expected completion: Fall 2015 Comment:
Dissertation title or general topic, if known: Optimization applications in healthcare
Required Courses: IME 724 Statistical Methods for Engineers, three semesters of zero credit IME 777 IME Colloquium and CESP750D
Engineering Research Writing classes
Graduate Course Work: At least 60 credit hours of course work and at least 24 hours of dissertation; Including dissertation, 60% of the
WSU courses in the PhD program must be at 800 or higher level and 60% of all graduate courses must be at 700 or higher level.
Major: at least 21 hours from a list of approved courses
Minor: at least 9 hours from a declared minor (usually one of the above IE areas or computer science or psychology or other engineering
disciplines). Note, minor and math/stat hours must add to at least 18 hours.
Mathematics/Statistics: at least 6 hours in calculus-based mathematics and/or statistics
Technical Electives: as many hours as necessary to satisfy the total hour requirements.
DOCTORAL PLAN OF STUDY APPROVED hours will be considered part of the degree requirement.
In the Action column, please indicate if course is an Add (A), Drop (D), Waived (W) or Transferred (T). MS hours are transferred to the PhD program
Action
(A/D/W/T)
Dept. and
Course #
IME 865
2
D
IME 783
A
CESP 820
D
CESP 811
1
A
ECON 585
2
D
COMP 634
4
3
A
N
3
A
N
3
A
N
3
A
N
3
A
Y
3
A
Y
Transfer
Institution
Notes
Major
A
Grade
Part of
Masters
(Yes/No)
HRS
ANALYSIS OF DISCRETE
SYSTEMS
SUPPLY CHAIN MGMT
1
3
Course Title
(or description)
5
6
7
2
3
Minor
1
LEARNING THEORY &
INSTRUCTION
PRINCIPLES OF MEAS &
PROGRAM EVALUATION
2
3
4
Electives
1
Math
4
ENVIRONMENTAL
ECONOMICS
MGMT INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
5
6
7
TOTAL →
Program Hours:85
PhD Hours: 64
Total 700 or Above WSU Credit Hours: 61
Total 800 or Above WSU PhD Credit Hours: 54
Supervisory/Dissertation Committee Members:
Role
Name
Advisor
Bayram Yildirim
Co-Advisor
Krishna Krishnan
Member
Pinfeng Wang
Member
Laila Cure
Outside Member David Wu
EXCESS HOURS ARE NOT
PERMITTED.
Percentage of WSU hours 700 or above: 72%
Percentage of WSU PhD hours 800 or above: 84%
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