The mission of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering is aligned with Rutgers University's mission of sustaining highest standards in teaching, research and public service and to educate exceptional leaders of the next generation.

In particular, the Program's mission is:

1. To prepare graduating engineers to apply their engineering knowledge, and creativity in solving complex engineering design problems, to approach unstructured problems, to synthesize and design potential solutions and to evaluate the impact of their solutions in the broader context of the organization or society.
2. To train graduating engineers to collect, analyze, interpret and experiment with data relevant to problems arising in the industrial and systems engineering domain.
3. To provide graduates with analytical and computational skills to operate effectively within the domain of industrial and systems engineering through training in problem identification, abstraction, solution and validation.
4. To prepare graduates to function as professionals in the workplace by fostering their ability to form, facilitate, lead, coordinate, and participate in teams as well as understand organizational processes and behavior. To prepare graduating engineers to effectively present and sell their solutions and to do so in the context of written, oral, and electronic media.
5. To provide graduates with the skills and ability to apply current technology to handle industrial issues and problems.
6. To sensitize graduates to global issues and life-long learning within the field/profession of industrial and systems engineering.

The Program's long-term objectives are:

1. To provide graduating students with a strong foundation and broad engineering education along with specialization in the fields of industrial and systems engineering.
2. To prepare graduating students for careers where they can make positive contributions to their professions and the society, or to continue on to successful graduate research and education.
3. To instill in graduating students the responsibilities and rewards associated with an engineering career and life-long service to the profession.

The faculty members' dedication to excellence in teaching and research and professional service in industrial engineering set a standard for the graduating engineers to follow in meeting the increasingly complex demands of their professional careers.